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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

North West architecture and design practice the Frank Whittle Partnership (FWP) has won the contract to carry out a feasibility study into building a new football stadium. The firm, which has offices ...

DESIGN and architecture practice the Frank Whittle Partnership has unveiled its vision for Preston’s Guild Hall after a £1m plus makeover. FWP, which is based in the city, is working with the ...

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 ...

Eighty years after its first flight, historians ask if the engine could have changed World War Two.