MyWiki:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines/Reference sources

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Navigation}} This page is intended to provide reliable sources to assist with content and the referencing of aero engine articles.

Books

General

• Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
• Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - The First 40 Years. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000.

Piston engines

• Barstow, Donald. W.O. Bentley, Engineer. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Haynes Publications, 1978. . (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.
• Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1993.
• Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1998.
• Kotelnikov, Vladimir. Russian Piston Aero Engines. Marlborough, Wiltshire. The Crowood Press Ltd. 2005. .
• Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .
• Nahum, A., Foster-Pegg, R.W., Birch, D. The Rolls-Royce Crecy, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Derby, England. 1994
• Rubbra, A.A. Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - a designer remembers: Historical Series no 16 :Rolls Royce Heritage Trust, 1990.
• 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

• Smith, Geoffrey G.Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, London S.E.1, Flight Publishing Co.Ltd., 1946.

Reliable internet sources

General

• 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

• 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

• Wikimedia Commons Collection of free aero engine images.
• Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Lists of other free image sources.

Self-published sources

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.

• Aerofiles.com
• Enginehistory.org
• Jack Erickson (Comcast.net)
• Minijets.org
• Oldengine.org
• The Classic Airplane Museum - Personal site of K.Takenaka.