Power for the Long‐Range Supersonic Airliner: A Paper read before the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences on June 18th, 1959

Abstract

IN investigating what powerplants will best meet the needs of the long‐range supersonic airliner we have to postulate that there will be such an aircraft and we need further to have some idea of its nature to match the engines to it, while equally, if we think about it, the kind of engines which could be available will react on the design of the airframe. So it appears that we must look at these two fields at first separately and then jointly in order to evolve a design specification for the complete aircraft. Moreover, the whole conception of a modern commercial aircraft has become so complex, in meeting a great diversity of operational requirements, that even in the fairly narrow process of matching the airframe and its engines a wide range of factors must be taken into consideration.

Citation

Jamison, R.R. (1959), "Power for the Long‐Range Supersonic Airliner: A Paper read before the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences on June 18th, 1959", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 31 No. 9, pp. 266-271. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033155