Rockets And Jets.

A popular introduction to rocket and jet propulsion compiled by R. Barnard Way and Noël D. Green, A.M.I.Mech.E., with drawings and diagrams by Way. The authors’ Introduction states at once that it is not a textbook but a book for anyone who wants to know a little more about the “new” forms of transport, which on inspection turn out to apply old principles. A color frontispiece shows jet-powered de Havilland Vampires over the Alps.

Eleven chapters cover the rocket in history, how the rocket works, rocket fuels, rocket motors and the rocket voyage, then duct motors, the gas turbine, the jet engine and jet engines in particular, the propeller jet, and a closing look at the future. Many line drawings explain motor layouts and German wartime designs. Not to be confused with Herbert Zim’s Rockets and Jets of 1945, held in Catalog B.