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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0567.PDF
FLIGHT, 56711 May 1956 t.WO years ago we published our first "Aero Engines of the World" issue, partly in the nature of an experiment. It was well received, and we have accordingly prepared another. In the following 29 pages the Technical Editor summarizes the progress of every one of the world's major aero-engine firms, the feature being illustrated by seventy-six drawings by "Flight" artist Frank Munger. Since the previous special number the development of the aviation engine has brought forth units which owe nothing to any reciprocating-engine ancestry. More remarkably, many of the most advanced power plants are being successfully developed by companies which never built a piston engine and which in many cases did not exist as firms ten years ago. AII the world over, impressive achievements are being realized by design teams wholly untrammelled by tradition—untrammelled because they have none. Surprising as this trend may seem, it is, like the demise of the steam locomotive, probably inevitable.
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