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Five Decades of the Aero Engine*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

F. R. Banks*
Affiliation:
A.T.S. Ltd.

Extract

I am very happy to give this lecture and since it is in the nature of an historical review I make no apologies for requoting something I wrote on another occasion: —

“The late Henry Ford is alleged to have said, ‘History is bunk’; which does not, of course, accord with the general view. Well-written and authenticated history is of great value to those willing to learn from it, but one should not lean upon the achievements of the past to progress towards the future.“

I will, later in this lecture, show a film on the turbojet engine, which is a good example of this modern method of putting across educational and instructional matter on products and processes.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1962

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References

Note on page 672 † The Golden Jubilee issue of The Aeroplane, 8th June 1961.

Note on page 681 * The value for the Rolls-Royce R type Schneider engine in 1931 was more than one h.p. per cu. in.

Note on page 681 † The 1949-50 value is that of the Napier Sabre, obtained on 100-130 Grade fuel plus water-mcthanol injection.