I know that there are various issues that are often overlooked by switching from piston to jet-engine in WW2 and postwar. From logistical aspects, to production challenges (error margins, materials, etc.). Yet, I haven't found a proper article/chapter/book on this issue that gives some clear examples, e.g., gives values on the error margins needed for piston engines, the number of maintenance hours, the need for paved runways, etc.
In short, I want some "hands-on" data. Ideally WW2, but post-war is also fine.
Hermione Giffard has a recent monograph on the adaptation of the turbojet during the war, Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and the United States, that cover some of these issues. Edward Constant's The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution was one of the first scholarly monographs to examine the complexities of turbojets. Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum goes a long way in debunking the myth perpetuated by Whittle that he was a lone inventor struggling against myopic bureaucrats. If you can read German, Ralk Schabel's Die Illusion der Wunderwaffen: Die Rolle der Düsenflugzeuge und Flugabwehrraketen in der Rüstungsindustrie des Dritten Reiches is an in-depth analysis of the politics behind the production of jets in Germany and Schabel challenges a number of popular assumptions about the adaptation of the turbojet by the Luftwaffe.