Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines/Reference sources

General

• Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Wellingborough, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1986. ISBN 0-85059-717-X
• Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, The First 40 Years. London, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000. ISBN 978-184046-151-0

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, 1999. ISBN 1 85260 599 5
• 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.

General

• www.easa.europa.eu European Aviation Safety Agency.
• www.airweb.faa.gov Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS) search engine of the Federal Aviation Authority.
• Old Machine Press.

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

• www.flightglobal.com Extensive archive of Flight and Flight International magazine scans.
• Flight 1919 aero engine directory
• Flight 1957 aero engine directory
• Flight 1959 aero engine directory
• Flight 1969 aero engine directory
• Flight International turbine engine directory - 1978 directory of engines and companies, click subsequent pages.
• 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 www.rolls-royce.com. These sites often contain links to engine type data sheets.

Images

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• Wikimedia Commons Collection of free aero engine images.
• Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Lists of other free image sources.