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 ...

Frank Whittle had no great head start in life beyond ... The British Government thought the jet engine idea wasn't important enough to be kept secret' A year later, Whittle filed a patent for ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwable was the world's first operational jet aircraft and was powered by an engine designed by ...

SIR FRANK WHITTLE is not a name that rings with the ... shares credit with German Hans J.P von Ohain for inventing the jet engine at a time when the British government doubted his mechanism ...

"I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that Frank Whittle was the real inventor of the jet engine and that he could have produced a jet fighter by 1937 if the Establishment had been on his side." ...

Yet the genius of Sir Frank Whittle, the man who invented the jet engine, will go almost entirely unheralded when the 75 th anniversary of his achievement falls next weekend. His son ...

When the turbine began to spin on the “WU” – the prototype jet engine developed by the Coventry-born engineer Frank Whittle – it was a moment which changed the world. Had you been passing ...

Air Commodore Frank Whittle, CBE, RAF, MA, Hon. MI Mech E had set about contributing a series of articles to The Engineer that would candidly and eloquently explain how the jet engine came into being.

I've been asked to tell you the story of jet propulsion, from the time 20 years ago when it was just an idea for making aeroplanes fly higher and faster, right up to the present. It's a long story ...

In the early days of the jet engine, Sir Frank Whittle’s prototypes relied on steel. This was a strong and hard material, but would not cope with the stresses of the modern gas turbine.

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 ...