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Kinney Index More Information 361 Index Adjustable and Reversible Propeller and modern airplane, 203 , 212 , 217 , Corporation, 83 , 88 , 91 , 103 233 , 277 , 306 , 308 Advanced Turboprop Project, 339 – 341 and Reed propeller, 167 , 169 , 178 Aerial Age Weekly , 31n38 , 75n1 and variable- pitch propeller, 104 , 204 , aerial spectacle 211 , 220 , 305 air racing, 147 , 167 , 178 , 224 aeronautical specialty, 3 – 7 , 9 – 11 , 103 , government- sponsored, 154 , 163 , 196f15 , 329 , 346 259 , 268 Aeroproducts Division of General Motors, Aerial Steamer, 18 313 – 314 Aeromarine Plane and Motor Model 606 propeller, 333 , 334 Company, 29 postwar developments, 324 , 328 , 333 , 334 Aeromatic Propellers, 325 Unimatic propeller, 252 , 313 – 314 aeronautical community, 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 – 7 , 12 , and World War II, 316 , 319 13 – 14 , 51 , 76 , 139 , 234 , 272 , Air Age, 4 , 236 , 273 , 306 , 324 , 349 306 , 328 Air Ministry American, 42 , 120 , 214 , 231 , 244 , 348 and de Havilland Aircraft British, 208 , 210 , 261 – 262 , 265 , 268 , Company, 265 272 , 281 , 286 , 304 and Fighter Command conversion engineering logic, 206 , 215 , 234 , 235 program, 294 German, 255 and Hele- Shaw Beacham propeller, and metal propeller, 26 , 126 , 134 , 108 – 110 , 207 143 , 176 and rearmament, 282 – 284 , 317 and Reed propeller, 154 , 155 , 158 , and Rotol, 267 178 – 179 Air Propellers, Inc., 191 and variable- pitch propeller, 87 , 98 , Aircraft Research Association, 337 198 , 246 airmindedness, 4 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 15 , 135 , 146 , and wood propeller, 32 , 38 324 , 347 aeronautical infrastructure, 8 , 45 , 73 , 181 , Airscrew Company Ltd., 264 , 277 , 279f21 , 345 , 346 287 , 318 Aeronautical Revolution, 2 , 2n3 , 9 , 73 , Allison Division of General Motors, 252 , 206 , 234 , 345 334 , 339 , 340 and ground- adjustable propeller, 116 , T56/ 501 engine, 331 , 333 126 , 144 aluminum, aluminum alloy. See duralumin 361 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14286-2 — Reinventing the Propeller Jeremy R. Kinney Index More Information 362 362 Index American Propeller and Manufacturing Burgess Company, 25 Company, 23 – 25 , 26 , 27 , 103 Burroughes, Hugh, 110 , 207 , 209 Universal propeller, 91 – 94 , 101 , 102 and World War I, 39 , 40 Caldwell, Frank W., 32 – 33 , 44 , 196f15 , Army Air Forces, 308 230f18 , 322 , 343 509th Composite Group, 313 awards, 229 , 240 56th Fighter Group, 315 – 316 at Curtiss, 33 – 35 39th Bomb Group, 310 at Hamilton Standard, 188 , Army Air Service 197 – 201 , 242 Engineering Division, 36 at McCook Field, 37 , 42 Arnold, Henry H., 83 , 216 patents, 128 , 144 , 188 , 197 and propeller whirl testing, 47 – 48 , Bacon, David L., 92 53 – 54 , 73 Bakelite Micarta, 98 , 100 , 118 – 120 , 192 and S.A. Reed, 163 – 167 , 170 , 176 , 179 Balfour, Harold, 281 at Standard Steel, 144 , 187 Bane, Thurman H., 82n20 , 82n21 , 82n24 , at United Aircraft, 310 , 331 83n26 , 84n29 , 84n30 , 86n34 , 87 , and variable- pitch propeller, 211 , 214 , 87n40 , 88 , 88n42 , 88n43 , 88n44 , 219 , 220 , 237 – 238 , 245 90n48 , 91n52 , 92n57 , 95n65 , 95n66 , Camp Borden, Royal Canadian Air Force, 98n78 , 99n80 , 100 , 100n84 , 113n117 , 112 , 114f9 119n5 , 119n7 , 122n16 , 122n17 , Canadian Propellers Ltd., 308 123 , 123n19 , 151 , 152n15 , 164n55 , Caproni, Giovanni, 29 165n58 Cayley, George, 18 Bastow, Stuart, 28 , 29 , 176 Chadwick, Roy, 264 Bastow- Pagé propeller, 28 – 29 , 176 Chati eld, Charles H., 195 , 196f15 , 213 Bazley, Halsey R., 198 Chauviére, Lucien, 22 Beacham, Thomas Edward, 109 , 207 , 208 , Collier Trophy 236 , 243 , 264 1925, 162 , 178 Blanchard, Jean- Pierre Francois, 17 1933, 229 , 230f18 Blanchard, Werner J. “Pete” 1938, 235 at Aeroproducts, 313 – 314 , 333 1987, 340 at Curtiss, 202 , 203 , 227 composites, 277 , 318 – 319 , 337 , 342 at Engineering Projects, 250 – 252 , 272 Constant Speed Airscrews Ltd., 270 – 272 Boeing Airplane Company Cooke, Desmond, 284 , 289 , 292 , 294 , B- 17, 239 , 308 , 309f23 299 – 300 , 304 B- 29, 308 – 310 , 313 , 315 Cozens, Henry Illife, 278 , 281 , 285 Monomail, 212 – 214 , 247 , 217 – 221 , Croce- Spinelli, Joseph, 19 228 , 233 , 236 Crook, David M., 302 – 303 Boggs, G. Ray, 80 culture of performance, 3 – 6 , 13 Bonson, E.W., 23 Curry, John F., 170 , 172 Breech, Ernest, 252 Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd., 210 , 34 , 39 , 161 , 181 , 201 262 , 266 and Reed propeller, 149 , 153 , 161 , 165 , Brookes, Donald S., 279 , 304 166 , 347 Brow, Harold J., 155 , 166 Curtiss aircraft Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer), 168n68 , Condor, 242 173n81 , 186n16 , 228n78 CR- 3, 146 , 147f13 , 157 on commercial sales, 228 , 239 JN- 3, 35 and metal propeller, 134 , 152 – 153 , 168 , JN- 4, 80 , 84 , 88 , 98 173 , 248 P- 36, 250 Bureau of Standards, 168 P- 40, 249 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14286-2 — Reinventing the Propeller Jeremy R. Kinney Index More Information 363 Index 363 Curtiss Electric propeller, 203 , 228 , Dowding, Hugh, 262 , 276 , 294 240 , 250 Dowty Rotol Ltd., 332 , 336 and World War II, 311 – 313 , 316 R391 Advanced Propeller System, 341 , Curtiss- Wright Corporation, 181 , 342f25 , 343 211 , 240 , 272 , 332 , See Propeller duralumin, 29 , 30 , 31 , 134 , 255 Division Army- Standard Steel blades, 126 – 127 drop- forging, 124 Damon, Ralph S., 250 Hamilton Aero blades, 186 Darley, H. S. “George”, 298 Reed propeller, 148 – 150 , 162 , 163 , 165 , 167 Daugherty, Earl S., 75 , 76f7 , 79 – 80 Durand, William F., 43 , 51 , 52 Davenport, Arthur, 264 Dwight, R. D., 30 de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd, and Fighter Command conversion Earle, Robert L., 250 program, 292 – 299 , 301 – 303 Ebert, Hans, 253 , 254 , 261 , 273 , 320 , 321 Hamilton Standard license, 229 , Ehinger, C. E., 333 231 – 232 , 262 , 268 engineering and market dominance, 265 – 266 aeronautical, 33 , 45 , 72 – 73 , 100 , and rearmament, 266 , 277 , 282 – 283 211 , 346 and World War II, 317 – 318 Army style, 46 , 53 , 72 – 73 , 115 , 118 de Havilland Propellers Ltd., 331 electrical, 60 , 73 de Havilland, Geoffrey, 27 mechanical, 33 , 47 , 73 , 95 , 104 , 211 Deere, Alan C., 280 , 290 , 303 Engineering Division, Army Air Service Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt and metal propeller, 117 – 134 (DVL), 253 , 255 and propeller testing, 53 – 66 DH- 4 “Liberty Plane”, 73 , 119 Propeller Testing Laboratory, 59 , 61f5 and Reed propeller, 154 , 160 , 168 and Reed propeller, 163 – 171 and Standard Steel propeller, 132 , 137 and variable- pitch propeller, 81 – 91 and variable- pitch propeller, 82 , 90 engineering logic and wood propeller, 50 , 121 conservative, 88 , 99 , 111 , 118 , Dickey, D. Adam, 55 , 67 , 68 , 73 205 , 263 background and education, 60 performance-based, 136 , 206 , 222 , evaluation of German propellers, 322 233 , 234 head of propeller unit, 72 – 73 Engineering Projects, Inc., 251 – 252 , 313 Materiel Division propeller, 215 Esnault- Pelterie, Robert, 26 Dicks Aeronautical Corporation, 144 , 248 Evans, Stanley H., 264 Dicks, Thomas A, collaboration with Frank Caldwell, Faehrmann, Hermann, 122 126 – 128 , 129 , 132 , 133 Fairey Aviation Company Ltd, at Dicks Aeronautical, 144 , 248 – 249 Battle bomber, 271 , 279 , 287 at Standard Steel, 94 – 95 Fairey- Reed propeller, 157 , 160 , 209 Dicks- Luttrell Propeller Company, 94 Fales, Elisha N., 125 Dienstbach, Carl, 16 , 21 , 22n17 Fechet, James E., 88 , 173 Doolittle, James H. “Jimmy”, 159 , 167 , Fedden, Roy, 210 – 211 , 211n17 , 231 , 224 , 226 262n80 , 266n96 , 267 , 267n98 , Dornier Do 17, 257 267n99 , 268 , 268n102 , 268n104 , Douglas Company 283 , 283n24 , 284n28 DC- 1, 221 – 223 i xed- pitch propeller, 22 , 22f2 , 31 , 37 , DC- 2, 205f17 , 223 – 224 , 233 38f3 , 44 , 47 DC- 3, 1 , 241 , 243 – 244 , 246 compared to variable- pitch propeller, DC- series, 7 206 , 208 , 213 , 222 , 231 Sleeper Transport (DST), 1 , 2f 1 , 245 in Germany, 260 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-14286-2 — Reinventing the Propeller Jeremy R. 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Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, 342 in Great Britain, 263 , 264 , 277 – 280 , Hamilton, Thomas F. “Tom”, 39 , 190 , 195 , 279f21 , 287 – 288 196f15 , 236 – 237 ground- adjustable, 117f10 , 129 , 130f11 , at Hamilton Aero Manufacturing, 184 , 131f12 185 , 187 , 210 Reed propeller, 146 , 163 , 169 – 170 at Hamilton Standard, 188 , 189 and Wright brothers, 20 – 22 , 345 Hart 1920 Model propeller, 82 – 88 , 89f8 Ford Motor Company, 119 , 169 , 249 Hart and Eustis propeller, 76f7 , 77 – 82 , 91 Franklin, William H., 299 Hart, Seth, 78 Freedman Aircraft Engineering, 325 Hartzell Propellers, 175 , 325 , 336 Freeman, Wilfrid R., 267 , 268 Hathorn, Charles, 149 , 150 , 151f14 Hawker Hurricane, 275 , 285 , 288 , Gallaudet, Edson F., 30 291 , 304 Gallup, David L., 33 Hayward, Charles B., 31 Gardner, Lester D., 177 Hearle, Frank T., 27 , 232 Gazely, Richard C., 70 Heath, Spencer, 23 – 24 , 27 , 91 – 94 , General Electric (GE), 48 , 62 , 98 , 340 , 100 – 102 , 103 , 176 341 , 343 Heddernheimer Metal Company, 253 Unducted Fan (UDF), 339 – 340 Hegy, Ray, 185 – 187 Gibson, Hugo C., 23 Helbig, W., 253 Giffard, Henri, 17 Hele- Shaw Beacham propeller, 109 – 111 , Gillmore, William E., 69 , 70n74 , 83n26 , 208 , 262 88n44 , 94n60 , 102 , 102n89 , 102n90 , Bristol development, 262 , 266 – 267 173n84 Gloster development, 111 , 206 , 210 , Gleed, Ian, 288 , 303 262 , 268 Gloster Aircraft Company, 108 , 110 , 111 , Rolls- Royce development, 262 , 267 206 – 207 , 207n3 , 207n4 , 209 , 210 , Hele- Shaw, Henry Selby, 108 – 109 , 207 , 210n15 , 210n16 , 267n99 208 , 236 , 243 , 264 Gouge, Arthur, 264 Hicks, Harold A., 120 Graf, John E., 177 higher, faster, and farther, 5 , 5n9 , 13 , 14 , Great Aerodrome , 20 272 , 334 Grey, C. G., 6 , 157 , 158 , 177 and the Jet Age, 306 , 326 , 338 , Grogan, George, 1 , 2f 1 , 245 , 348 349 and propeller development, 143 , 179 , Halahan, P.