Frank Whittle submitted a UK patent on a design in 1930, while Hans von Ohain begun exploring the field in Germany in 1935. Leading on from Ohain’s work, the first flight of a jet-powered ...

Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the ...

He sent his plans to the Air Ministry, whose expert dismissed the design as “impracticable”. Sir Frank Whittle in 1944 Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph Whittle patented the idea ...

The Frank Whittle Monument ... including the (renewed) 1936 patent for Whittle’s design, and a champagne bottle, signed by the great man, from a party held at RAF Cranwell on the evening ...

Frank Whittle had no great head start in life beyond ... He chose an impossibly ambitious subject, Future Developments In Aircraft Design, and tackled the eternal problem of how to get planes ...

The story of Frank Whittle and the invention of the jet engine ... In that year Whittle took out a patent on an engine design consisting of an air compressor driven by a gas turbine, with a ...

British aviation engineer and legendary pilot Frank Whittle was the main player in the development of the jet engine that was to change the face of 20th century aviation. Written by Nick Smith ...

Sir Frank Whittle describes the invention of the jet ... and he chose as his subject Future Developments in Aircraft Design. In it he explained how in future aircraft would not use propellers ...

Frank built his company into one the country’s best known architecture and surveying practices with a national reputation, particularly in sports stadia and NHS / healthcare design, providing ...

At their helm was Frank Whittle, a maverick Midlands man who had powered his way through an RAF apprenticeship and a Cambridge University engineering course to design something many found ...

Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the ...