The Olympus 320 Engine, info wanted

[Aircav]

Has anyone got a copy of "The Olympus 320 Engine: A Case Study in Design, Development, and Organizational Control", by John Law © 1992, just wondered if there was any dimensional data in it for the engine.
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Steve 

[deathjester]

I would try the imperial war museum website, and search for 'Olympus 320'.

[elmayerle]

If you can find it, the most useful book would be a smalll blue hardback, Aircraft Engines of the World, 1964/65, a truly invauable source.  If you can acquire the whole series used, you'll have a most excellent database as all sorts of intereting data show up (comparing data, the Orenda iroquois and the Olympus 320 have similar thrusts, but the Iroqouis is 100 inches shorter - makes you wonder about the dismantled Iroquois that showed up in the UK a few years ago).  There's also good data in this particular number on the Medway and the BS.100.  I've often thought of taking the rather bogus "Spey" nozzles that Revell made years ago for their 1/48 Phantom FG.1 kit and scaleorama them as afterburning Medway nozzles for an upgraded TSR.2.

[Aircav]

Thanks for the info Chap's 

[DamienB]

Has anyone got a copy of "The Olympus 320 Engine: A Case Study in Design, Development, and Organizational Control", by John Law © 1992, just wondered if there was any dimensional data in it for the engine.

Unlikely - John Law is a sociology professor, it's more likely an article about the sociological aspects of the project management than anything technical. That's an article by the way, not a publication of its own. Published in Technology and Culture. Volume 33, Number 3 - you can download a PDF from a few places for about $10, just search for the article title.

I may have the dimensions somewhere but nothing found on a very quick trawl of the documentation I have.