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Reliability of Aircraft Engines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

J. D. Siddeley
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Extract

The progress of mechanical flight to the present stable position occupied by aircraft as a means of transport has been so closely related with the problems associated with the development of the power unit, that an examination of such an important factor as its “ reliability ” appears justified.

In searching for possible means to produce power, it was natural that the use of steam as a motive power should have been considered. First Langley and then Maxim in 1895 produced a steam plant designed for aircraft. No practical success was attained by these early efforts, and a considerable period elapsed before the successful power unit for aircraft was evolved.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 171 , March 1925 , pp. 132 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1925

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