Jet engines
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: LCSH web site: "Here are entered general works on jet engines and works on jet engines for aircraft."Variants: Airplanes -- Jet engines // Jet motors // Jet planes -- Motors.
Broader: Airplanes -- Motors // Motors.
Narrower: Airplanes--Ramjet engines // Airplanes--Turbine-propeller engines // Airplanes--Turbojet engines // Jet flaps (Airplanes).
Other: Here are entered general works on jet engines and works on jet engines for aircraft.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jet Aircraft Power Systems (3d Edition), 1965
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 113, Call No.: TL 709 .C35 1965
Identifier: 20121108
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical)Purpose: Training and EducationAuthority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"Even as changes and improvements are made in gas-turbine engines, so must changes and improvements be made in textbooks describing these engines. For this reason, the third edition of Jet Aircraft Power Systems has been written to bring new information on gas-turbine engines to the student of aircraft...
Dates:
Copyright: 1965
Jet Aircraft Simplified (1954 Edition), 1954 edition
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 159, Call No.: TL 709 .C5 1954
Identifier: 20121104
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training & Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope:From dust-jacket blurb: "JET AIRCRAFT SIMPLIFIED explains in a fascinating, step-by-step manner the basic principles and practical applications of the jet propulsion of aircraft. Among the many subjects discussed and illustrated with both line drawings and photographs are the discovery of jet propulsion, simple examples of...
Dates:
Publication: 1954 edition
Jet Engine... Accident Investigation, 1959, 1959
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 183, Call No.: TL 553.5 .G4
Identifier: 20121111
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Technical Reference)Purpose: Authoritative referenceAuthority: ManufacturerScope: Written in 1959 by Charles W. Myers and Gerald B. Wagner of the Service Training School, Aircraft Gas Turbine Division, General Electric Company in 1959 for students of the GE schoolhouse.From the Introduction: "This manual has been written in an endeavor to equip investigators to analyze a turbojet power plant involved in an accident, to...
Dates:
Copyright: 1959; Publication: 1959