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Power Installations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

F. M. Owner
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Never, at any time since the Wright Brothers made their first flight have the means of propulsion exercised a more dominant influence over the shape of aircraft or the shape of things to come, nor can it have been so difficult to forecast the form resulting from that influence. It has been a platitude for some time past to say that aircraft and engine design are mutually interdependent: now it is more than a platitude, it is a fact, and one to which we have not yet grown accustomed.

That power installations can no longer be procured “off the peg” is to-day an article of faith which is generally professed: what is rarer is an appreciation of the implications of this state of affairs. Pursued to its logical conclusion, the implication is that a new aircraft and its means of propulsion should originate in the same brain, and be designed, developed and manufactured under the guidance of that brain.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 434 , February 1947 , pp. 71 - 108
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1947

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