Jet: Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet Engine by John Golley

Jet: Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet Engine

John Golley

344 pages first pub 1987 (view editions)

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In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in an experimental Gloster-Whittle aircraft, but despite the RAF's desperate need for air supremacy over...

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