From the author:

1. For 19 years, I ran a panel session at ASME's IGTI annual meeting that resulted in attendees considering the gas turbine (GT) experience of end users in other sectors. My own time in gas turbine industry has gone from power generation to mechanical drive to aeroengine and back again, so it is second nature to be able to apply the theory, applications, and experience from one sector to another. As this book covers "land, sea, and air," my suggestion to the reader is that he or she use this book to do the same, if that's not already "standard."

2. Case studies in this book are generally adapted extracts from academic papers that are included with the authors' or the authors' parent companies' permission. If the reader decides to get the complete original paper, I suggest contacting the originating or originating OEM company or authors (if the authors are "independent"). The publisher of said work may be an academic society. As such, its technical work may be run by volunteers. Its core staff may be entirely non-technical and would not be as seasoned as the writer of the work or the OEM company involved. The latter may, for instance, point out that there have been more papers on that same subject, which they may have presented at another society's venue. Academic society or conference/ publisher offices however, can sell overall proceedings of a meeting, generally supplied on a CD Rom. They could also be a source of archived...