SAE International as a WWII engine resource

[Voyager]

Don't know if you folks are aware of this, but it looks like the SAE International has a lot of WWII engine and aircraft stuff in their online and print on demand catalog. 

 

R-154 is a look at the evolution of allied aircraft engines during the war. 

 

R-241 is an in-depth history of the R-2800 and all its major installations. If you guys ever do the Hellcat, they have records that one of the supercharger stages did not take ram air, and that's what caused the plane to be slow for its drag vs power. 

 

They've got a lot of papers on detonation and pre-ignition, both period and current state of the art available. 

 

They've also got a recent (2000) computational fluid dynamics model of the P-39 and P-63 (2000-01-1678)

 

I'm also seeing a major study on the causes of engine detonation: 520250: Some Effects of Fuel Structure, Tetraethyl Lead, and Engine Deposits On Precombustion Reactions in a Firing Engine
https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/520250/?src=480221

 

It's looking like the Society of Automotive Engineers may have ended up absorbing a lot of the WWII era reciprocating engine research. 

 

Don't know if any of you all knew about this, or not. I'm definitely going have to do some digging.