Frank Whittle
Noun
Meaning
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
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Air Commodore ) Frank Whittle, CBE *1946–1947: Group Captain (Temp.
Air Commodore) Frank Whittle, CBE *1947–1948: Group Captain (Temp.
Gas turbine aero-thermodynamics : with special reference to aircraft propulsion Sir Frank Whittle, Pergamon Press Ltd. 1981, ISBN 9780080267197.
Frank Whittle, "Improvements relating to the propulsion of aircraft and other vehicles," British patent no. 347,206 (filed: 16 January 1930).
From 1929, Frank Whittle began work on centrifugal turbine designs that would deliver pure jet thrust.
It says "on this common Frank Whittle, jet pioneer, first felt the power of flight."