Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines/Reference sources
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This page is intended to provide reliable sources to assist with content and the referencing of aero engine articles.
Books
=General=
- 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=
- 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=
- Smith, Geoffrey G.Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, London S.E.1, Flight Publishing Co.Ltd., 1946.
Reliable internet sources
===General===
- [http://www.easa.europa.eu/ws_prod/g/g_about.php www.easa.europa.eu] European Aviation Safety Agency.
- [http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgMakeModel.nsf/MainFrame?OpenFrameSet www.airweb.faa.gov] Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS) search engine of the Federal Aviation Authority.
- [http://oldmachinepress.wordpress.com/about/ Old Machine Press].
::Flight and Flight International magazine PDF archives (use [https://web.archive.org/ web.archive.org])
- [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/index.html www.flightglobal.com] Extensive archive of Flight and Flight International magazine scans.
- [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%200201.html Flight 1919 aero engine directory]
- [https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%201021.html Flight 1957 aero engine directory]
- [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%200782.html Flight 1959 aero engine directory]
- [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%200029.html Flight 1969 aero engine directory]
- [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1978/1978%20-%200021.html Flight International turbine engine directory] - 1978 directory of engines and companies, click subsequent pages.
- [https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2002/2002%20-%201202.html Flight International military engine directory] - 2002
=Manufacturers=
- 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 [http://www.rolls-royce.com/ www.rolls-royce.com]. These sites often contain links to engine type data sheets.
=Images=
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- [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] Collection of free aero engine images.
- [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_resources Wikimedia Meta-Wiki] Lists of other free image sources.
Self-published sources
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A number of user generated personal websites and websites of societies exist on the Internet. They do not currently meet the policy requirement of Wikipedia:Verifiability and should not be used as sources in articles.
- [http://aerofiles.com/aboutus.html Aerofiles.com]
- [http://enginehistory.org/about_aehs.shtml Enginehistory.org]
- [http://home.comcast.net/~aeroengine/Author.html Jack Erickson (Comcast.net)]
- [http://www.minijets.org/index.php?id=accueil&L=3&cHash=eec8acf0b9 Minijets.org]
- [http://oldengine.org/ Oldengine.org]
- [http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/index-E.html The Classic Airplane Museum - Personal site of K.Takenaka].