Essay On Aero Engine

Aircraft provide us with a fast, reliable mode of transport without effective alternative for long distance travel. Throughout the years, technology improvements have been made to aircrafts and engines to make them more fuel efficient.
Due to the complex structure of the aero engine, this together with other factors likes very high temperatures and high-speed working environment; since most of the parts and processes are moving and happening at a high speed, faults are bound to take place at any moment. In most mechanical factors leading to air accidents, the aero-engine is the major cause/key factor.
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) statistics, between the years 1988 to 1993 (a period of about six years) there were as much as thirty-four times flight accidents due to leaf faults, aero-engine fires or the aero-engine breaking away from the wings of the aircraft. The aero engine is a key component of the aircraft and this is why it should be monitored since a fault with the aero engine can lead to a catastrophic

An aero engine is therefore the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power; these aero engines are almost always light weight piston engines/reciprocating engines (a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion) or gas turbines (has an upstream rotating compressor coupled with a downstream turbine, and a combustor in between), except for small multicopter UAV which are almost always electric