The most comprehensive guide to aircraft powerplants fully updated for the latest advances and regulations
This up-to-date guide contains all the information you need to master the operation and maintenance of aircraft engines and achieve FAA Powerplant certification. The book offers plain-language explanations of all current engine components, mechanics, and technologies. This tenth edition features expanded coverage of turbine engine theory, operational procedures, maintainability, engine systems operation, and propeller systems. You will get new examples, exercises, and practice exam questions as well as revised content to align with 2022 FAA regulations. Hundreds of detailed diagrams and real-world examples throughout illustrate each topic. In addition, an up-to-date solutions manual is available online.
Aircraft Powerplants: Powerplant Certification, Tenth Edition covers:
Aircraft powerplant classification and progress
Reciprocating-engine construction and nomenclature
Internal-combustion engine theory and performance
Induction, supercharger, and turbocharger systems
Cooling, exhaust, and lubrication systems
Basic fuel systems and carburetors
Fuel injection systems
Reciprocating-engine ignition and starting systems
Operation, inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting of reciprocating engines
Reciprocating-engine overhaul practices
Principal parts, construction, types, and nomenclature of gas-turbine engines
Gas-turbine engine theory and jet propulsion principles and efficiencies
Gas-turbine engine fuels and fuel systems
Turbine-engine lubricants and lubricating systems
Ignition and starting systems of gas-turbine engines
Turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft engines
Gas-turbine operation, inspection, troubleshooting, maintenance, and overhaul
Propeller theory, nomenclature, and operation
Turbopropellers and control systems
Propeller installation, inspection, and maintenance
Engine indicating, warning, and control systems