Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane

by Jeremy R. Kinney

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107142865
• ISBN13: 9781107142862
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"