ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY1.FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE GAS TURBINE71.1 ALAN GRIFFITH IN 1926: “TURBINE BLADES ARE LIKE AEROFOILS"1.2 FRANK WHITTLE: MR. TURBOJET1.3 HOW TWO BRITISH GOT IN EACH OTHER’S WAY, AND LET A GERMAN TAKE THE TROPHY AWAY…1.4 HANS VON OHAIN AND HEINKEL: FIRST TURBOJET FLIGHT EVER1.5 HEINKEL’S EXPERIMENTAL HES 010 AND HYBRID HES 0111.6 HOW SANFORD MOSS’S TURBOCHARGER LED GE INTO AVIATION…1.7 WHITTLE’S COMBUSTION QUEST: VAPORIZING OR ATOMIZING?1.8 …AND WHY GE AND R-R ULTIMATELY BUILT WHITTLE JETS2 FRANK HALFORD’S STRAIGHT-THROUGH ENGINE DESIGN2.1 HALFORD’S H-1: A GREAT SUCCESS, THOUSANDS BUILT…2.2 …AND THE STRAIGHT-THROUGH DESIGNS OF GE, R-R AND P&W2.3 HOW FRANK HALFORD ALSO POWERED THE COMET3 INTERMEZZO: THE EARLY TURBOPROPS3.1 R-R DART: ICONIC TURBOPROP WITH RADIAL COMPRESSOR3.2 POST-DART MEDIUM-POWER TURBOPROPS AND THEIR BUILDERS4 THE STORY OF THE AXIAL TURBOJETS4.1 GERMANY: ADVANCED DESIGN, BUT A TERRIBLE SERVICE LIFE4.2 UK: THE METROVICK PROGRAM - TURBOJETS, TURBOFANS AND EVEN PROPFANS!4.3 ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY, BRISTOL, DE HAVILLAND, R-R, THE MERGER4.4 THE AXIAL TURBOJETS OF P&W AND GE5 MEANWHILE AT THE SOVIETS…5.1 ARKHYP LYULKA, FOUNDING FATHER OF THE SOVIET GAS TURBINE, INVENTOR OF THE TURBOFAN5.2 VLADIMIR KLIMOV: BUILDING R-R TURBOJETS IN THE USSR5.3 WHY IT WAS ACTUALLY JUNKERS THAT POWERED THE TU-955.4 TRANSFORMING A BEAR INTO A FLYING PALACE6 HOW THE USSR WON THE 1950S CIVIL JET RACE6.1 1952: THE DH COMET AND THE HANDICAP OF A HEAD-START6.2 BOEING’S 707: FIRST QUALIFIED, YET SECOND IN 19586.3 MIKULIN AND DOBRYNIN: BOOSTING SOVIET JET POWER6.4 TU-104: THE FIRST PASSENGER JET…WITH RISKY LANDINGS…6.5 WATER INJECTION TO BOOST TAKE-OFF…?7 THREE WAYS TO BUILD A TURBOFAN7.1 R-R’S CONWAY WELL AHEAD, BUT FINISHING SECOND AGAIN7.2 HOW P&W’S “CONVERSION KIT” CONQUERED THE MARKET7.3 GE’S BEST FUEL-EFFICIENT DESIGN, BUT FOR A NICHE, TOO SMALL…7.4 USSR: THE TURBOFANS OF SOLOVIEV AND KUZNETSOV8 GE’S “GIANT LEAP” OF 1964, AND THE TROUBLES OF 19708.1 WHAT DO RYAN XV5 VTOL AND C-5 GALAXY HAVE IN COMMON?8.2 BOEING LAUNCHES JUMBO JET, BUT JT9D HAS SEVERE ISSUES…8.3 …AND THE TRIPLE-SPOOL (ALMOST) KILLED R-R (…AND TRISTAR)9 WIDE-BODY TWINJETS: IT’S ALL IN THE FAN!9.1 R-R INTRODUCES WIDE-CHORD BLADES AND “SCIMITAR” BLADES.9.2 GE GOES COMPOSITE ON THE GE90…9.3 …AND WHY R-R STUCK WITH A TITANIUM FAN.10 THE BATTLE FOR THE NARROW-BODY ENGINES10.1 HOW GE BECAME THE CORE OF CFM10.2 IAE: OLD FRIENDS TEAM AGAIN…BUT NOT FOR THE SUPERFAN…10.3 LEAP VS GTF: THE CONCEPT10.4 LEAP VS GTF: THE DEVELOPMENT10.5 GTF: THE PROBLEMS AND THE CONSEQUENCES11 THE SOVIET COLLAPSE, THE RUSSIAN RESTART AND THE RISE OF CHINA11.1 R-R POWERING TU-204 AND P&W MODERNIZING PS-90A11.2 2004: SAFRAN WITH SATURN IN SAM146, BUT NOT FOREVER11.3 AVIADVIGATEL PD-14, FROM 2008 (AND PD-8 FROM 2019)11.4 RUSSIAN PD-35 OR PD-26? AND A CHINESE CJ-2000?12 THE QUEST FOR ULTIMATE EFFICIENCY12.1 FROM GE-36 AND ALLISON 578 TO CFM RISE?12.2 ANTONOV AND PROGRESS, RUSSIAN TARGETS IN UKRAINIAN WAR12.3 KUZNETSOV’S UNIQUE CONTRA-ROTATING THRUST DEMONSTRATORS13. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: A SERIES OF REVOLUTIONSSOURCE REFERENCES & PHOTO CREDITS:An overview of the most notable events in 100 years of aviation gas turbine development.Concise, yet complete and up-to-date, illustrated with diagrams on the development of thrust and compressor technology. Contains many historical anecdotes and engine drawings.