Hey guys,
If you like ww2, engines, and airplanes and are a bit of a tech nerd I have the book for you. The Secret Horsepower Race: Western Front Fighter Engine Development is superb. It has an excellent summary of fighter engine technology before the war, and every year during the war. It talks about the development of everything from superchargers, turbochargers, direct fuel injection, nitros oxide, methanol injection. Essentially, almost every meaningful piece of combustion engine technology was developed from 1939-45.
It talks about how the limitations on aviation engines put in place by the Treaty of Versailles actually lead to the Germans researching fuel injection, and subsequently getting way out ahead of the allies because of it.
It also has lots of cool ww2 history like the British trying to buy Alison engines from the Americans so they could study their turb0s---but being rebuffed by the Americans who were worried about intellectual property---so they had to dig BMW turbo engines out of wrecks to study them. Just craziness.
It is a technical book with lots of graphs and charts but it is still very approachable especially if you like engine technology.
Take a look here...
Here is a much better review...
https://www.standingwellback.com/boo...rsepower-race/
The book is hardbound, has lots of color pictures, and is very nicely put together and it's on $43. If you like motors and ww2 this is the book for sitting next to the toilet!
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Horsep.../dp/1911658506
https://www.calum-douglas.com/curren...rsepower-race/
Bookmarks