Books on Turbines
 

Can anyone recommend any good books on turbine machines? I'd be looking for something for someone with only piston experience and very little knowledge on turbines.

Thanks

I can highly recommend this one:-

The Jet engine - Rolls-Royce

The Rolls Royce book stood me in good stead when I did my licence exams - it's been a while since then but the book cover details like re-heat and water injection which featured in the exam at the time, not sure if that's still the case though.

HO123 - I take it you've read it? Does it cover the L models as well as the B models? Might have to order myself a copy.

Cirrusly

Personally I found RR The Jet Engine lacking in detail and it left me with so many unanswered questions, so under advise I purchased Aircraft Powerplants (by Kroes, Wild, Bent & McKinley).

Although the first half covers piston power plants :zzz:, the second half covers gas turbines (and propellers) pretty comprehensively and uses a number of well known large and small engine models and systems (RR, GE, P&W, P&WC, Allison, Air Research, Dee Howard, Hamilton Standard, Woodward etc.) rather than just RR and was for me, far more comprehensive than the RR copy.

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I recently donated several boxes of aviation books including "Turbine Powerplant Technology" and for some reason, two copies of "Aerodynamics For Naval Aviators" to the local library. I had them for years and hadn't looked at them. When I want to know something these days I go straight to google. There are excellent articles on just about everything under the sun including turbine engines from cartoonish to over the top technical. (some junk but its easily identifiable as such) I found a helicopter aerodynamics presentation that is outstanding. When I moved into the EC-145, I found several great articles on the Mast Moment Indicator that were much better that the flight manual presentation.
Check out this one for example:

Interactive Engine Education: GE Aviation

google a specific engine by nomenclature or any manufacturer to see this kind of great information.

Cheers, The Grump

Books on turbines? I know they've run turbines on wood chips, is that close...? :E

The AIAA has some good publications on the subject, depending on what aspect of the industry you're after - see here, here and here.

The chapter on turbine engines from Cyclic and Collective will be sent to anyone who pm's me.

Snap. I did the same as the grumpytroll, donated several boxes of aviation books to a small but active flying school/club here in oz; including some books I shouldn't have. The donation to their library was greeted with open mouthed astonishment and they were very grateful but I caution others to think before doing same; you may want to refer to them again.