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Modern Methods of Testing Aero-Engines and Power Plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

In the early days of aero-engines the test equipment was limited to little more than a brake or dynamometer, a fuel flow meter and a few thermometers, and the development of these engines in the direction of better performance and reliability, to a large extent, was an art, built up of experience aided by instinct, of deducing the happenings inside an engine from the few meagre measurements obtainable.

Nevertheless, the aero-engine made healthy progress, became more complicated in the process, and introduced many more problems.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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