Home
Join
Donate
About AEHS
Installations

The integration of engine and airframe is always a non-trivial endeavor, and sometimes presents some truly daunting engineering challenges. The myriad plumbing, electrical, mechanical, induction and exhaust connections must be accomplished in a way that is simultaneously functional, reliable, and maintainable.

This section presents some noteworthy engine installations, and details how these challenges were met.

 

AEHS Member Reiner Decher, retired professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington in Seattle, has made his book The Vortex and the Jet available to the AEHS. This book covers both airframe and power plant principles in some depth. In doing so it reveals important aircraft integration issues.

Download Link

 

 


Nacelles, by Carl Kuhns

The Meredith Effect: An Efficient Way to Recover the Heat Wasted in Piston Engine Cooling

de Havilland Comet 2 Engine Installation

Vickers VC10 Engine Installation


 

Selected Chapters from
1939 Wright Aeronautical Installation Manual
Submitted by Robert Brown

 

Contents and Preface (1.4 MB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 1 - Engine Mounts (1.5 MB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 5 - Induction System (2.6 MB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 6 - Exhaust Systems (2.2 MB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 7 - Engine Controls (668 KB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 8 - Ignition Systems (618 MB PDF)

Section 1, Chapter 9 - Aircraft Engine Accessories (3.5 MB PDF)

Section 2, Chapter 2 - Installation Test Specification (4.4 MB PDF)

Section 2, Chapter 3 - Vibration (1.1 MB PDF)