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This page is intended to provide reliable sources to assist with content and the referencing of aero engine articles.

Books

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General

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  • Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. ISBN 1-85260-163-9
  • Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - The First 40 Years. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000. ISBN 1-84046-151-9

Piston engines

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  • Barstow, Donald. W.O. Bentley, Engineer. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Haynes Publications, 1978. ISBN 0 85429 215 2. (Chapter 1 provides drawings and engineering calculations for the BR-1 and BR-2 rotary engines built 1919).
  • Gunston, Bill. Development of Piston Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 2006. ISBN 0-7509-4478-1
  • Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1993. ISBN 1-85170-347-0
  • Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0-517-67964-7
  • Kotelnikov, Vladimir. Russian Piston Aero Engines. Marlborough, Wiltshire. The Crowood Press Ltd. 2005. ISBN 1 86126 702 9.
  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.
  • Nahum, A., Foster-Pegg, R.W., Birch, D. The Rolls-Royce Crecy, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Derby, England. 1994 ISBN 1-872922-05-8
  • Rubbra, A.A. Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - a designer remembers: Historical Series no 16 :Rolls Royce Heritage Trust, 1990. ISBN 1-87292-200-7
  • Aircraft engines of the air forces of foreign states, Publisher: Voenizdat USSR NKO, 1939. (A file containing all 160+ pages of this Russian language volume is available on Wikimedia Commons here).

Gas turbines

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  • Smith, Geoffrey G.Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, London S.E.1, Flight Publishing Co.Ltd., 1946.

Reliable internet sources

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General

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Flight and Flight International magazine PDF archives (use web.archive.org)

Manufacturers

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  • For current manufacturers' official websites please visit the Wikipedia article where the link should be included in the 'External links' section, if not please add it! For example Rolls-Royce plc has a link to www.rolls-royce.com. These sites often contain links to engine type data sheets.

Images

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Self-published sources

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