By J. Connors
This e-book describes the evolution from piston engines to gasoline generators by way of the engineers who created these engines. incorporated are hundreds and hundreds of archival photos, in addition to over a dozen tables directory standards and functions. the tale begins with the founding of the corporate within the Twenties to supply trustworthy air-cooled piston engines to the army and to aid create coast-to-coast advertisement flight carrier. the writer explains how Pratt & Whitney got here from in the back of the contest constructing gasoline generators after the conflict with the debut of the J57, which powered the B-52 in 1952, and later the Air strength Century sequence warring parties (F-100, F-101, F-102) and the military A3D, F4D, and F-8 airplanes. additionally coated is the advance of the J58, which powered the Mach three+ YF-12 and SR-71 plane and next army engines. Pratt & Whitney’s contribution to the posh advertisement jet period shuttle is usually specified, with its JT3, JT3D, JT4, JT8D, JT9D, PW2000, PW4000, and PW6000 in Boeing, Douglas, and Airbus plane. This historical past of Pratt & Whitney’s position within the evolution of plane engines from 1925 to the current day bargains younger engineers a wealth of insights approximately layout, improvement, advertising and marketing, and product help for advertisement and army buyers.
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In June 1955, in his report [9] to the board of directors, he had this to say: On the whole I think we can be reasonably optimistic about our present position in the industry from virtually every standpoint. I would call attention particularly to my earlier remarks that, while these next two or three years seem definite and assured, immediately thereafter we will be face to face with new, important, and efficient engineering competition. We certainly could not expect to continue to spread-eagle the field and it is a foregone conclusion that our advantage will dwindle in two or three years from now.
That was necessary because Dr. George N. P. Mead needed reliable transportation to complete his rounds in Massachusetts. Young Mead’s schooling included St. George’s School in Newport Rhode Island, the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, and MIT (1911–1915). Mead started his engineering career in 1915 at the Sterling Engine Company in Buffalo, New York, where he worked on the development of a new internal combustion engine. In 1916, he joined the Crane Simplex Automobile Company, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, as a test engineer.
This power increase was due to 1) the development of higher PN fuels, which permitted higher manifold pressures without detonation (a great advantage the Allies had over the Germans in WWII); 2) development of more efficient superchargers, which produced the desired pressure increase without an abnormal increase in temperature; 3) forged aluminum cylinder heads with much greater cooling-fin surfaces; 4) higher rpm with reduction gears; and 5) intercoolers keeping the fuel–air mixture below the detonation temperature.