Compound Diesel Engines for Aircraft
- 1 May 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Vol. 58 (525) , 613-633
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0368393100099600
Abstract
The association of a gas turbine with a piston engine is by no means a recent conception. As early as 1924 a Napier Lion Series V engine was equipped with a turbine in the manner shown in Fig. 1, the exhaust gases being fed into the turbine to provide all the power to drive the engine supercharger. At a later date during the 1939-1945 War, many engines were installed in operational aircraft fitted with “turbo-chargers” of the type shown in Fig. 2, in which an exhaust activated turbine drives a subsidiary blower boosting the air intake of the normal engine supercharger.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: