Aircraft Powerplants: Powerplant Certification, Tenth Edition

The most comprehensive guide to aircraft powerplants―fully updated for the latest advances and regulations

This up-to-date guide contains all the information you need to master the operation and maintenance of aircraft engines and achieve FAA Powerplant certification. The book offers plain-language explanations of all current engine components, mechanics, and technologies. This tenth edition features expanded coverage of turbine engine theory, operational procedures, maintainability, engine systems operation, and propeller systems. You will get new examples, exercises, and practice exam questions as well as revised content to align with 2022 FAA regulations. Hundreds of detailed diagrams and real-world examples throughout illustrate each topic. In addition, an up-to-date solutions manual is available online.

Aircraft Powerplants: Powerplant Certification, Tenth Edition covers:

Aircraft powerplant classification and progress

Reciprocating-engine construction and nomenclature

Internal-combustion engine theory and performance

Induction, supercharger, and turbocharger systems

Cooling, exhaust, and lubrication systems

Basic fuel systems and carburetors

Fuel injection systems

Reciprocating-engine ignition and starting systems

Operation, inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting of reciprocating engines

Reciprocating-engine overhaul practices

Principal parts, construction, types, and nomenclature of gas-turbine engines

Gas-turbine engine theory and jet propulsion principles and efficiencies

Gas-turbine engine fuels and fuel systems

Turbine-engine lubricants and lubricating systems

Ignition and starting systems of gas-turbine engines

Turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft engines

Gas-turbine operation, inspection, troubleshooting, maintenance, and overhaul

Propeller theory, nomenclature, and operation

Turbopropellers and control systems

Propeller installation, inspection, and maintenance

Engine indicating, warning, and control systems