Reply to thread

Message

Donald Eyre was the designer who drew the Griffith perspective above; it was his job to express visually Griffiths's concepts for communication to the rest of the company. As Don once explained over a cup of coffee... one had to remember we were building very complex pieces of machinery anyway... called a V-12 engine.... so the challenges did not seem too great. Some of the engineering RR did at that time was about reorienting thinking of some of the staff away from V12s and to consider the gas turbine and its implications.. RR did, starting with a WR1 built with Whittle's blessing, and 15 years after the CR.1 had built 17,000 RR designed centrifugal engines based on the Whittle concept. I believe Griffith talked to Jakob Ackeret, (famous) Professor of Aerodynamics at ETH in Zurich, at about this time; who persuaded him that matching such a combination of aerofoils was a bit limiting. Further thinking by Griffith led him to think about more conventional and multi spool engines, leading eventually to the Avon and Conway.

<blockquote data-quote="tartle" data-source="post: 138737" data-attributes="member: 3576"><p>Donald Eyre was the designer who drew the Griffith perspective above; it was his job to express visually Griffiths's concepts for communication to the rest of the company. As Don once explained over a cup of coffee... one had to remember we were building very complex pieces of machinery anyway... called a V-12 engine.... so the challenges did not seem too great. Some of the engineering RR did at that time was about reorienting thinking of some of the staff away from V12s and to consider the gas turbine and its implications.. RR did, starting with a WR1 built with Whittle's blessing, and 15 years after the CR.1 had built 17,000 RR designed centrifugal engines based on the Whittle concept. I believe Griffith talked to Jakob Ackeret, (famous) Professor of Aerodynamics at ETH in Zurich, at about this time; who persuaded him that matching such a combination of aerofoils was a bit limiting. Further thinking by Griffith led him to think about more conventional and multi spool engines, leading eventually to the Avon and Conway.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="tartle, post: 138737, member: 3576"] Donald Eyre was the designer who drew the Griffith perspective above; it was his job to express visually Griffiths's concepts for communication to the rest of the company. As Don once explained over a cup of coffee... one had to remember we were building very complex pieces of machinery anyway... called a V-12 engine.... so the challenges did not seem too great. Some of the engineering RR did at that time was about reorienting thinking of some of the staff away from V12s and to consider the gas turbine and its implications.. RR did, starting with a WR1 built with Whittle's blessing, and 15 years after the CR.1 had built 17,000 RR designed centrifugal engines based on the Whittle concept. I believe Griffith talked to Jakob Ackeret, (famous) Professor of Aerodynamics at ETH in Zurich, at about this time; who persuaded him that matching such a combination of aerofoils was a bit limiting. Further thinking by Griffith led him to think about more conventional and multi spool engines, leading eventually to the Avon and Conway. [/QUOTE]

Verification