Inventions That Changed The Way We Think

Enthralling to see the great man's paper. I only skimmed a few pages as it's not my field, but it was still a delight as one can easilly recognise the assured writing of someone completely at ease with their subject.

Thanks

Del

Such a pity you prevent so many people from reading the work by putting it a format many of us cannot use on a work computer!

Can you make it available in a fashion like CR4? so I can read it? We are not permitted to download programs here....

The papers are in a pdf format for straight downloading the reader is the same as a pdf reader. If you haven't got the 'go' for downloading this then you will have to do it on your home machine. Sorry away from my machine for three days Da Vah.

Just to put things in the right picture, at the time Sir Frank was writing the hawker Fury was yet to be invented, most planes were biplanes and made of wood steel tube and cloth, Monoplanes were considered flimsy and not at all practical. If my memory is correct Sir Frank was yet to attend senior college at Cranwell and yet to undertake his undergraduate degree.

Something as an aside is to read his book 'Jet', John Golley's biography of Sir Frank and the Rolls Royce Historical Society booklet 'Pistons to Blades' These will help you put everyhting into context. They all contain a long winded discussion of the Whittle - Rover problems. My thinking is that the issue should be required study for Engineers and Firms working for the Military as they highlight the different thinking patterns and operating ways of public servants, military personnel and established engineering firms.

I think it is high time we took the next step in propulsion, which to me is to chuck the turbine! My current thinking is the Catherine Wheel / Hero Turbine where the combustion jet provides the torque directly to the axle.

With that I leave it up to you Da Vah, until I get back from holidays in two weeks.