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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...
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  • The Sir Frank Whittle Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Academy of Engineering to an engineer, normally resident in the United Kingdom, for outstanding...
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    designs that Frank Whittle had been developing during the 1930s. Gloster and the company's chief designer, George Carter, worked with Whittle to develop...
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    southwest of Coventry City Centre. It is the birthplace of aviation pioneer Frank Whittle. Most shops and restaurants are laid out on Earlsdon Street, the suburban...
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    where it is accelerated to high speed to provide thrust. Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept...
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    The Whittle Arch is a public art installation in Coventry, England. It is dedicated to Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, who was...
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  • the Sun - Frank Whittle". PBS. Retrieved 26 March 2010. "History - Frank Whittle (1907–1996)". BBC. Retrieved 26 March 2010. Frank Whittle, "Improvements...
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    place in the War Memorial Park, Coventry was held at Hearsall Common. Frank Whittle, the aerospace engineer and jet pioneer, was born in Earlsdon, and the...
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    Henry Cavendish, Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, James Dewar, Frank Whittle, and five Nobel prize winners in science: Sir John Kendrew, Sir Aaron...
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    technical problems involved did not begin to be solved until the 1930s. Frank Whittle, an English inventor and RAF officer, began development of a viable...
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    Jet Engine – Sir Frank Whittle – Hans Von Ohain Ohain said that he had not read Whittle's patent and Whittle believed him. (Frank Whittle 1907–1996). Warsitz...
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    also contains a number of well-preserved half-timbered buildings. Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, developed some of the world's first jet...
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    Retrieved 29 March 2014. "Sir Frank Whittle, Inventor of the Jet Engine". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 14 June 2021. "Frank Whittle (1907–1996)". History. BBC...
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    Power Jets W.1 (redirect from Whittle W.1)
    The Power Jets W.1 (sometimes called the Whittle W.1) was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets. The W.1 was built under contract...
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  • The Power Jets WU (Whittle Unit) was a series of three very different experimental jet engines produced and tested by Frank Whittle and his small team...
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    designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine. Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-inventor of the turbojet...
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  • 1928: Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbo-jet engine. In October 1929, he developed his ideas further. On 16 January 1930, Whittle submitted...
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    heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd. Development of the aircraft began in...
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  • Borough Council on 4 June 2014. The Preston architecture company the Frank Whittle Partnership Limited (the FWP group), who have been involved in the successful...
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    used in conjunction with the fan as first envisaged by inventor Frank Whittle. Whittle envisioned flight speeds of 500 mph in his March 1936 UK patent...
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    Power Jets was a British company set up by Frank Whittle for the purpose of designing and manufacturing jet engines. The company was nationalised in 1944...
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  • this time. The jet engine was clearly an idea whose time had come. Frank Whittle submitted his first patent in 1930. By the late 1930s there were six...
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    Establishment. 1930: Having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, Frank Whittle patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion...
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    Elizabeth Stakes winner Nathaniel. Four weeks later, Frankel ran in the Frank Whittle Conditions Stakes over seven furlongs at Doncaster. Only two horses...
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  • Daniel Webster Whittle (1840–1901), American gospel songwriter Francis McNeece Whittle (1823–1902), Episcopal bishop of Virginia Frank Whittle (1907–1996)...
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     180. Golley, John (10 August 1996). "Obituaries: Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2 December 2010. Clark, Steed &...
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    along with pioneers in three other fields (Charles Babbage (computing), Frank Whittle (jet engine) and Robert Watson-Watt (radar)). In 1999, under the title...
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    This speed limitation led to research into jet engines, notably by Frank Whittle in England and Hans von Ohain in Germany. This also led to propellers...
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    the Gloster E28/39 with a single turbo-jet engine (invented by Sir Frank Whittle) took off from the company's flight test airfield at Brockworth. This...
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  • rotary engine (U.S. patent 2,988,008). Late 1930s – Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle separately build pioneering gas turbine engines intended for aircraft...
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