Name: The Jet Engine: Fire in a Tube, and the End of Distance
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of The Jet Engine: Fire in a Tube, and the End of Distance, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

The jet engine is fire in a tube - and the end of distance. This book follows the gas turbine from its inventors' workshops to the airliner wing, the industry that builds it, and the physics that still bounds it.

118 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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The Jet Engine - the book (PDF) 118 pages · 1.4 MB The Jet Engine - source companion (PDF) 12 pages · 0.1 MB

Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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Aerospace & Defense

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