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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine.
- United Kingdom
- Cranwell, England
- 1 June 1907, Coventry, England
- 8 August 1996 (aged 89), Columbia, Maryland, US
Apr 15, 2024 · Sir Frank Whittle (born June 1, 1907, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died August 8, 1996, Columbia, Maryland, U.S.) was an English aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. The son of a mechanic, Whittle entered the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a boy apprentice and soon qualified as a pilot at the RAF College in Cranwell.
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May 16, 2021 · 16 May 2021. World War Two. Getty Images. Whittle became frustrated with the government during his jet development. By Jennifer Harby. BBC News. Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing...
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May 16, 2021 · Frank Whittle: The underrated British hero who built a jet engine. 16 May 2021. By Jennifer Harby,BBC News. Getty Images. Whittle became frustrated with the government during his jet...
Sir Frank Whittle aeronautical engineer and inventor of the jet engine, gives instructions in its workings to the journalist Clifford Troke, 1948. Nearly two years earlier and unknown to the Allies, the work of a young German academic and engineer Hans von Ohain, working with the support of Dr Ernst Heinkel and his company, had resulted in the ...
Sir Frank Whittle © Whittle was a Royal Air Force officer who made a major contribution to the invention of the jet engine. Frank Whittle was born on 1 June 1907 in Coventry, the son of a...
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time.
