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Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Technology

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This volume is the best publication for aeronautical gas turbine technology. It is a powerful tool as a reference and as a didactic implement.

Theory. The development of theory is quite simple and straightforward. Being intended for technicians, the mathematical level is really easy, nevertheless the associated phenomenons are solidly explained. If the reader is looking for a more advanced maths dissection, he has to search a different book, conversely this treatment is the best complement to theoretical study: here concepts came alive and the mathematical set of solutions to equations are translated in real stuff.

Materials and technical evaluation. The edition copes with the advanced techniques introduced in more recent designs and products. The previous editions were full of excerpts from manufacturer pubblications or other technical papers, the current one is enriched by new illustrations and detailed explanations of advanced research. Drawings and graphs were the best facets of former editions and still they are, literally boosting reader's learning curve.

Engines. A wide selection of engines is avalable as examples, each one deeply dissected, showing typical arrangements and design solutions. This accurate study of construcion details and manufacturing techniques is explanatory since it shows the real article as designed, produced and maintained, focusing on each part functionality and it is real as it gets!

This book is what you need if you want to know HOW aircraft engines are made. Since it's thought for technicians, it doesn'cover (almost) at all thermodynamics, no math, just a few basic physical principles on aircraft gas turbines. This is the real point: more photos, shematics, diagrams then equations (rigor mortis).

You will learn how are Gas Turbines made, what kind of engine is currently being used in what kind of aircraft, how is the fuel system made, plus a much more.

Buy it without esitation.

This is an outstanding book by a knowledgeable author that provides the basic know-how and skills that a technician who maintains or just wants to learn or study aircraft gas turbine engines will find useful and helpful. The book is well written in a readable and easy to follow format that provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of jet propulsion. The author clearly presents the concepts and principles of modern gas turbine engines with no complicated formulas.

The reader will learn the various components of a gas turbine engine including the intake design, compressors, turbines, combustion chamber designs, and the jet pipe and how thrust is produced as well as the modern maintenance, repair and overhaul techniques and philosophies.

The book has great explanations, diagrams and figures that the reader will find useful and helpful. I recommend the book not only to technicians but also to beginning aeronautical and mechanical engineering students who need a basic but comprehensive understanding of gas turbine engines and how they are maintained.

I found this book to be intensively desciptive when I was taking my gas turbine technician course and would recommend it to any one who wishes to understand the concepts of the gas turbine engines.

This book is awesome! Plain simple. It offers the reader in-depth introduction of aeronautical gas-turbine powerplants, in an easy to read format. This book is definately the book which want-to-be-aeronautical engineers would want to read.

The book is very well written. However, some sections as in thrust reversers and others do not deserve as much space as for example sections on turbines and compressors.

Although the book is updated it still contains sections which are very out of date and have not changed from an earlier release.

I'm currently serving a one year deployment in Iraq. I got my Airframe and Powerplant mechanic certificates just before leaving the US. I purchased this book (among others) because I wanted to have a series of reference books to keep my knowledge fresh.
I was familiar with Glencoe Aviation mechanic books. I used their Powerplant text while I was in school. It was the most expensive book of all the texts that we used during the program. Therefore, I wasn't surprised by the price tag, but I purchased it anyways because their Powerplant book was a quality, in depth book, published in fairly quality paper with good detailed illustrations/schematics of various engines and components.
However, "Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Technology" is completely the opposite. The paper is cheap, the printing looks like it has been photocopied, there is no detail in most of the illustrations, some are just black spots in.
I was thinking about getting more books from Glencoe but after this experience a I would only do it if I could physically examine them first in a book store.
For those thinking "Well, why didn't you just return it?", you can imagine that is not an easy task in the place where I am right now.

I wanted to learn the basics of gas turbines and found this book to be excellent. It has a lot photographs and cross-sections. The book discusses and explains a lot of the terminology that I needed to learn. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the subject.

This is a very good book for gas turbine engine technology. It is helpful over the whole subject, but having detailed sections of individual engines (really the best sellers) was an extra bonus. It's in my work bookcase, one of only a few.