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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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aircraft engines.
- Wikimedia Commons Collection of free aero engine images.
- Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Lists of other free image sources.
Self-published sources
[edit]A number of user generated personal websites and websites of societies exist on the Internet. They do not currently meet the policy requirement of Wikipedia:Verifiability and should not be used as sources in articles.