Reinventing the Propeller
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Reinventing the Propeller

Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reinventing the Propeller

Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane

About this book

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly moves from the minds of these inventors to their drawing boards, workshops, research and development facilities, and factories, and then shows us how their work performed in the air, both commercially and militarily. Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new perspectives on engineering, research and development, design, and the multi-layered social, cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and military infrastructure of aviation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of tables
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. List of abbreviations
  13. A note on terms
  14. 1 Introduction
  15. 2 “The Best Propeller for Starting Is Not the Best for Flying”
  16. 3 “Engineering of a Pioneer Character”
  17. 4 A “New Type Adjustable-Pitch Propeller”
  18. 5 “The Propeller That Took Lindbergh Across”
  19. 6 “The Ultimate Solution of Our Propeller Problem”
  20. 7 No.1 Propeller Company
  21. 8 A Gear Shift for the Airplane
  22. 9 Constant-Speed
  23. 10 “The Spitfire Now ‘Is an Aeroplane’”
  24. 11 A Propeller for the Air Age
  25. 12 Conclusion
  26. Essay on Sources
  27. Index