Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines/Reference sources

This page is intended to provide reliable sources to assist with content and the referencing of aero engine articles.

Books edit

General edit

Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. ISBN 1-85260-163-9
Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - The First 40 Years. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-84046-151-9

Piston engines edit

Barstow, Donald. W.O. Bentley, Engineer. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Haynes Publications, 1978. ISBN 0 85429 215 2. (Chapter 1 provides drawings and engineering calculations for the BR-1 and BR-2 rotary engines built 1919).
Gunston, Bill. Development of Piston Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 2006. ISBN 0-7509-4478-1
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1993. ISBN 1-85170-347-0
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0-517-67964-7
Kotelnikov, Vladimir. Russian Piston Aero Engines. Marlborough, Wiltshire. The Crowood Press Ltd. 2005. ISBN 1 86126 702 9.
Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.
Nahum, A., Foster-Pegg, R.W., Birch, D. The Rolls-Royce Crecy, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Derby, England. 1994 ISBN 1-872922-05-8
Rubbra, A.A. Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - a designer remembers: Historical Series no 16 :Rolls Royce Heritage Trust, 1990. ISBN 1-87292-200-7
Aircraft engines of the air forces of foreign states, Publisher: Voenizdat USSR NKO, 1939. (A file containing all 160+ pages of this Russian language volume is available on Wikimedia Commons here).

Gas turbines edit

Smith, Geoffrey G.Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, London S.E.1, Flight Publishing Co.Ltd., 1946.

Reliable internet sources edit

General edit

www.easa.europa.eu European Aviation Safety Agency.
www.airweb.faa.gov Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS) search engine of the Federal Aviation Authority.
Old Machine Press.

Flight and Flight International magazine PDF archives (use web.archive.org)

www.flightglobal.com Extensive archive of Flight and Flight International magazine scans.
Flight 1919 aero engine directory
Flight 1957 aero engine directory
Flight 1959 aero engine directory
Flight 1969 aero engine directory
Flight International turbine engine directory - 1978 directory of engines and companies, click subsequent pages.
Flight International military engine directory - 2002

Manufacturers edit

For current manufacturers' official websites please visit the Wikipedia article where the link should be included in the 'External links' section, if not please add it! For example Rolls-Royce plc has a link to www.rolls-royce.com. These sites often contain links to engine type data sheets.

Images edit

Wikimedia Commons Collection of free aero engine images.
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Lists of other free image sources.

Self-published sources edit

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