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Transparent Engines at Rolls‐Royce: The Application of High Energy X‐ray Technology to Gas Turbine Development

P.A.E. STEWART C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E., F.R.AeS., F.R.P.S. (Head of Advanced Projects Department — Test Operations Rolls‐Royce)

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 1 February 1980

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Abstract

One of the most frustrating aspects of gas turbine engineering since the work of Whittle has been the inability of the designer and development engineer to see or visualise the behaviour of components within a jet engine on test.

Citation

STEWART, P.A.E. (1980), "Transparent Engines at Rolls‐Royce: The Application of High Energy X‐ray Technology to Gas Turbine Development", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035598

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MCB UP Ltd

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