Links

The following pages belong to technology resources, friends, supporters, and like-minded enthusiasts.

Bill Pearce's Old Machine Blog (Aircraft, Automobiles and Engines)
Snecma Bibliothèque: Slow loads, finicky navigation, but be patient; it is worth the wait.
Evzen Vsetecka's Aircraft Engine Photographs: Hundreds of Rare Engines from All Over Europe
Allied and Axis Aircraft Performance Information - Thanks Robert Nishimura
Great American Adventurers: The Wright Brothers and the Airplane (thanks to Ashley M.)
Pan Am Historical Foundation
All the World's Rotocraft
Aircraft Engine Images from North American Museums
Lycoming T55 Details (engine is being prepared for a land speed record attempt)
Classic Warbirds
Diesel Air Newsletter
La Maison Ratier
Jet Engine Specification Database
WW1 Aero and Skyways
History of Flight (thanks toTony) History of Flight (thanks to Karyn)
Vintage Aircraft Association
Virtual Aircraft Museum: Images and Data for Thousands of Aircraft
Lockheed D-21 Ramjet Details
FAA Airworthiness Standards and Advisory Circular covering Aircraft Engine Certification
War Department Technical Manual on Aircraft Engines (TM 1-405, 1945)
A Study of the Flammability of Magnesium (4.95MB PDF)
WW1 Engines in Museums (click on Museums, then En. ...)
100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation
EAA Warbirds - Promoting and Encouraging the Preservation and Safe Operation of Warbirds
Wikipedia Article on the Rolls-Royce R
Scale Resin Engine Models
Pratt & Whitney Logo Products
White 1 BMW 801 Engine and Propeller Restoration
BMW 801 Images
Woodward Governors
Scale Model Engines
Aircraft and Engine Manuals
Flight's History of Flight from 1909
The Vintage Aviator - WW1 Aircraft and Engine Restoration and Reproduction
Inside a Merlin 68
Memorial Flight's He 162 Restoration Page with Numerous BMW 003 Engine Details
Garrett AiResearch AFT3 Online Museum
British Aviation Ads
Vintage Propeller Collection
Aircraft Engine Walkarounds
Bristol Aero Engine Collection
Siemens Engines
Indexes for over 550,000 Air Force Documents
The Transport Archive (Images of Britain's transport system. Includes aircraft engines and manufacturing.)
Bentley BR-2 Construction
Miss Bardahl Merlin Engine Overhaul
Ezell Aviation Warbird Restoration
Glue-It Aircraft Photographic Reference
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney Australia (Powerhouse Museum)
Napier Power Heritage
Museum-Quality Engine Replica Models
Flight Magazine Cutaway Drawings (Follow the "ARCHIVE" tab to the "Cutaways" link)
Encyclopedia Astronautica (Rockets and Space, includes engine index and information)
Dennis A. Harmon's Flight Engineer Page
Aircraft Technology, Engineering & Maintenance Engine Yearbook
Computer Graphic Renderings of WW1 Aircraft and Engines
Charles Downs' Aviation Research Database (Accident Reports, NavAir Manuals)
Quarter-Scale R-R Merlin Project
Airman.com Aviation Web Sites
Cross & Cockade: Aero-Engines Exhibited & Stored in the United Kingdom & Ireland
Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In
Pratt & Whitney J58 Engine Information
Follow the Restoration of a Rolls-Royce Merlin by Students at Northbrook College Sussex
Collection of the James Dekle Family of Thomasville, Georgia
Society of Air Racing Historians
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation
Randy Wilson's Aviation History Site
Science Museum - London
Preserved Axis Aircraft (an engine page under each nationality)
Holcomb's Aerodrome -- Pioneer, Great War and Golden Age
Jack Erickson's Horizontally Opposed Piston Aero Engine Reference
PHOTOVALET Aviation Engines & Links
Andreas Parsch's Military Designations Site. Includes US, Chinese, and German engines.
Aerofiles Powerplants
Homebuilt Aircraft Engine Page
Wooden Propellers
Engine Manuals on CD
Merlin V-12 Page
The Internet Craftsmanship Museum
Joe Gertler's Engine Page
The Aviation Zone - Unofficial Home of the Heavies
Royal Aeronautical Society
Wings of Eagles Discovery Center
Gnome Rotary Animation (other engines also)
Document Collection of the Aircraft Engine Historical Society
NASA History Series
Fantastic home-constructed model engine site!
The Wright Experience - Details on the engines that started it all
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum
North American Trainer Association
NACA Technical Report Server
FW-190 restoration
Gloster Meteor Restoration with early jet engine info including RR Derwent
Miniature Radial Engines
Armstrong-Siddeley Experimental Engines
Big Lycoming Engines
Jack Mattingly's Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Design Site
Lisa's Aviation Links
Wings on the Web - Aircraft images
Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
Society of Experimental Test Pilots
Eng-Tips Forums - Technical support forums and mutual help system for engineering professionals.
Junkers Aircraft and Engines
History of Air Transport Aircraft since 1930
Ian F. Bennett's Gas Turbine site

Wondering where to get engine books in the UK? Here are some places to start (please send your links)

American Technical Publishers Ltd
Crowood Press (Airlife Books)
Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Book List/Order Form (313K PDF)

Here are a few U.S. publishers and distributors of engine books (please send your links)

Specialty Press
Society of Automotive Engineers
Schiffer Books
Historic Aviation
Weak Force Press