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French Turbo–Propeller and Turbo–Reaction Engines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

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When, in the course of his visit to Paris in May 1948, Dr. Roxbee Cox invited me to lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society on our work in the field of turbopropeller and turbo-reaction engines, I was torn between two sentiments; the great honour which was done to me, and the seeming temerity for a French engineer to discourse on aircraft turbines before some of the people who had been responsible for the W2 700, the Nene, Ghost, F2, Theseus, Mamba, and other engines. The first of these sentiments however carried the day, as it could hardly fail to do in view of Dr. Roxbee Cox's extreme kindness.

Therefore I ask for the indulgence of my audience in listening to this, the first account to be given of the modest work done since 1941 by a team of French technicians, who were specialists in steam and industrial gas turbines, who had foreseen the possible development of the latter for aircraft, and who, completely cut off from the engineering world during the Occupation, at first worked literally in complete isolation, unaware even of the existence of the British and German achievements.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1949

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References

Note on page 111 The 755th Lecture read before the Society—on 11th November 1948, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.I. In the Chair, the President, Dr. H. Roxbee Cox, D.I.C., F.R.Ae.S., F.I.Ae.S.

Note on page 111 * Société d'Etude de Materiels d'Aviation, a subsidiary company of Cie Eléctro–Mécanique.

Note on page 124 * Société Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiqes de Sud–Est.