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Some Possible Lines of Development in Aircraft Engines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

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Extract

In the following paper the writer's aim is to indicate certain possible lines of development and research which his own investigations and preliminary experiments have shown to be at least worthy of serious consideration.

If we review the present state of the art we find the position to be substantially as follows :—From a thermodynamic point of view the performance of the modern aero engine has approached so nearly to the ideal obtainable from the cycle on which it operates that there is little scope for improvement.

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Proceedings
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 123 , March 1921 , pp. 130 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1921

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References

Note on page 165 * W. J. Walker. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, December, 1920.