Every year, Jet Age Museum commemorates the anniversary of the birth of the Jet Age, celebrating the genius of Sir Frank Whittle whose pioneering work on the jet engine led to the first flight of the ...

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Today turbine engines power the majority aircraft. These engines have come to play a significant part in aviation. We will take a look back in time and examine some historical ...

Whittle had met and discussed his project with designers and test pilots in 1939, and in 1940 The Air Ministry commissioned the company to design an aircraft. As there was no suitable aircraft for the ...

He died in 1881 aged 96. 20th century engineer and inventor Sir Frank Whittle is famous for developing the first British Turbo Jet engine at Power Jets in Lutterworth. You can’t miss the life-size ...

Starting with the early history of Whittle’s jet engine and its early testing, Feilden takes us inside the firm to give us a first-hand account of the jet’s flight trials, in the Gloster E28/39 and ...

It is 83 years ago to the day that Sir Frank Whittle's jet engine began trials at the Gloster Aircraft Factory. There, the little Gloster E28/39 first left the ground on April 8 1941.

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Significant aircrafts in the museum also include the Vickers Vimy/Rolls-Royce biplane which made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919, the Gloster-Whittle E28/39, Britain's first ...

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It would take until 1941 for Whittle and Power Jets to produce an airworthy engine, the W1. It was fitted inside a Gloster E28/39 which was specifically built for Whittle's engine and the plane ...