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Thrust Reversal for Jet Aircraft*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. H. Colley
R. H. Colley*
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce Ltd.
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Several years ago it became apparent that there was a need for some means of reversing the thrust of jet engines on landing—the equivalent of reversing pitch propellers on piston and turbo-prop engines.

Many different designs were investigated on the drawing-board, with experimental backing in some cases, and when the best configurations had crystallised detail work started on a reverser for the Avon engine. While this was being developed a second design, identical in its main principle but different in many small ways, was prepared for the Conway engine.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 586 , October 1959 , pp. 563 - 571
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959

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Footnotes

*

Based on a lecture given before the Derby Branch of the Society on 1st December 1958

References

* Based on a lecture given before the Derby Branch of the Society on 1st December 1958