Did Frank Whittle invent the jet engine?
Sir Frank Whittle’s jet aircraft engine was patented in 1932, and Power Jets, Ltd. The Whittle Unit bench test engine first ran on April 12, 1937. Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain’s Frank Whittle. Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930, received that recognition but did not perform a flight test until 1941.Rolls-Royce begin development of the Jet Engine with Sir Frank Whittle. In the early 1940s, building on the pioneering jet propulsion work of English aviation engineer Frank Whittle, Rolls-Royce designed the Welland, the first jet engine to enter military service (in the Gloster Meteor in 1944).
Who discovered the jet engine?
Sir Frank Whittle (born June 1, 1907, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died August 8, 1996, Columbia, Maryland, U. S. English aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. In 1986, Whittle was appointed a member of the Order of Merit (Commonwealth). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and in 1991 he and von Ohain were awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize for their work on turbojet engines. Whittle became an atheist by degrees.