Engines of Unprecedented Speeds

Abstract

A popularly written coverage is presented of the historical development of jet and rocket engines, covering their beginnings, design developments and problems, competition with and ultimate supersession of the reciprocating engine in flight applications. Final chapters are devoted to discussion of engines of new types. The book concerns the heart of contemporary high-speed aircraft, rockets, and spaceships-different reaction engines. The book covers prospects for development of reaction engines, scientific problems faced by scientists in this area, and the place of engines of different types in the vast family of reaction engines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 29, 1969
Accession Number
AD0691591

Entities

People

  • K. A. Gilzin

Organizations

  • Air Force Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Chemical Elements
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Energy
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Rockets
  • Rotor Blades (Turbomachinery)
  • Turbogenerators

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.