A Simple Guide To Understanding Jet Engines

This book is ideal for those who want to be Aircraft Engineers. In fact, pilots, students and anyone who has an interest in aviation can pick this book up and, in no time, have enough understanding to satisfy the most pedantic examiner.

Written with over thirty years experience of lecturing in aircraft maintenance and systems to an international body of students, this volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn about jet engines.

It has taken the subject of the theory and principles of gas turbines and rejected the complex and erudite, to form a guide understandable to everyone who has an interest in aviation.

Even though the book is simplified, the topics covered are vast, as outlined in the table of contents. It starts with a brief look at the history and development of the gas turbine and then, using humour and examples, passes through the engine stage by stage examining each component in turn by function and principle until the last chapter where different applications are considered.