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I found a copy of A Eight Decades of Progress - Heritage of Aircraft Turbine Technology going cheap on Abebooks which cheap postage to NZ which was too good to resist.
Its a giant book in all respects; 3.8 pounds in weight, substantially larger than A4, with 328 thick, glossy pages. Lots of colour too.
Its basically a corporate history of General Electric's aircraft turbine engines up to the end of the 1970s. Its got some interesting obscure stuff in there as well as the more well known engines, like a photo and some discussion of the GE XF100 demonstrator engine which lost to P&W.
Ironically, the primary reason was the Air Force doubted they had the detailed knowledge of intake / fan compatibility gained during the F-111 / TF30 troubles. Ironic because the early F100 suffered badly with engine stalls the GE F101, F404 and F110 proved extremely tolerant of disturbed airflow.
It looks like an interesting "coffee table" style book but its also well-researched from the GE Corporate archives and full of little nuggets of information.
Its a giant book in all respects; 3.8 pounds in weight, substantially larger than A4, with 328 thick, glossy pages. Lots of colour too.
Its basically a corporate history of General Electric's aircraft turbine engines up to the end of the 1970s. Its got some interesting obscure stuff in there as well as the more well known engines, like a photo and some discussion of the GE XF100 demonstrator engine which lost to P&W.
Ironically, the primary reason was the Air Force doubted they had the detailed knowledge of intake / fan compatibility gained during the F-111 / TF30 troubles. Ironic because the early F100 suffered badly with engine stalls the GE F101, F404 and F110 proved extremely tolerant of disturbed airflow.
It looks like an interesting "coffee table" style book but its also well-researched from the GE Corporate archives and full of little nuggets of information.
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