Deleted member 68059
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- Dec 28, 2015
Hi everyone,
Just letting you know that I`m close to making an agreement with my existing publisher Mortons, and American gas turbine expert and American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow, Dr S. Can Gülen (from Bechtel Corporation) to jointly write a new book on German turbojets of the 30`s and 40`s. As we`re venturing out of my professional experience zone (as I`m a piston engine designer, not a gas-turbine expert), I thought it was necessary to make this book a joint-effort, and Dr Gülen is able to provide this experience. Dr Gülen comes to this project as he and I have just submitted the 1947 technical memoirs of
German WW2 engine designer Professor Dr-Ing Karl Kollmann to ASME for publication later this year, now of course in English (probable final front cover and title below).
The focus of the jet engine book (moving on from our just completed book cover shown above) will be (like my first book The Secret Horsepower Race, which has now sold nearly 5000 copies and is on its 3rd print-run), in a sort of "in their own words" history, using the German Air Ministry meeting records and manufacturers internal technical reports to form a narrative chronological history, rather than an "A-Z of Engines", or an ultra-academic pure engineering textbook. We do plan to make it highly technical in places where it is appropriate to explaining the story.
If anyone has comments on this idea, or suggestions for things they feel ought to be covered, please write below. All feedback will be
considered. If you think such a book isn't needed, that's also valid feedback if you can say why.
If we sign the contract, it will probably take us 2 years to get it into print (i.e about 4 man-years of work).
Kind Regards
Calum
Just letting you know that I`m close to making an agreement with my existing publisher Mortons, and American gas turbine expert and American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow, Dr S. Can Gülen (from Bechtel Corporation) to jointly write a new book on German turbojets of the 30`s and 40`s. As we`re venturing out of my professional experience zone (as I`m a piston engine designer, not a gas-turbine expert), I thought it was necessary to make this book a joint-effort, and Dr Gülen is able to provide this experience. Dr Gülen comes to this project as he and I have just submitted the 1947 technical memoirs of
German WW2 engine designer Professor Dr-Ing Karl Kollmann to ASME for publication later this year, now of course in English (probable final front cover and title below).
The focus of the jet engine book (moving on from our just completed book cover shown above) will be (like my first book The Secret Horsepower Race, which has now sold nearly 5000 copies and is on its 3rd print-run), in a sort of "in their own words" history, using the German Air Ministry meeting records and manufacturers internal technical reports to form a narrative chronological history, rather than an "A-Z of Engines", or an ultra-academic pure engineering textbook. We do plan to make it highly technical in places where it is appropriate to explaining the story.
If anyone has comments on this idea, or suggestions for things they feel ought to be covered, please write below. All feedback will be
considered. If you think such a book isn't needed, that's also valid feedback if you can say why.
If we sign the contract, it will probably take us 2 years to get it into print (i.e about 4 man-years of work).
Kind Regards
Calum
