Frank Whittle's idea's for the centrifugal turbo jet engine during his apprenticeship. His academic and practical abilities as an Aircraft Apprentice earned him a place on the officer training course at Cranwell. He excelled in his studies and became an accomplished pilot. While writing his thesis there he formulated the fundamental concepts that led to the creation of the turbojet engine, taking out a patent on his design in 1930. I took him until 41 to get the establishment to listen, I think with support he would probably have given the RAF jet fighters and bombers in the later 1930's and possibly prevented WW2.
@michaelmartinez1345
2 жыл бұрын
This was good... I really liked that scene with Arthur Godfrey, shutting off 3 of the four engines on that Lockheed Constellation, and still being able to easily maintain altitude.... With relatively little vibration or drag... Unfortunately, several of the modern wide bodied twin jets have trouble shutting down an engine, and still maintain altitude ... On at least 2- 777' flights, (United 1175 and United 328) when those planes had engine problems during the flight, the pilots had a rough time getting them to an airport safely... Especially the 1175 flight going twds HNL... The pilot was Saying that he had trouble keeping the plane at a consistent altitude, because of the massive drag that gigantic damaged engine produced ... And the pilot also said that the plane was using more fuel because of that drag, and mentioned that if it happened just 20 minutes earlier, they probably would have had to ditch the plane into the ocean... I'll take a 3 or 4 engined plane on a flight like this... But NOT a 2- Engined plane....
@worldwidestuff5567
3 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time they manufactured cutting-edge aircraft and even had a space program, sadly all the British produce now are gossip magazines.
@hanznel8488
2 жыл бұрын
Not exactly true. Remember Rolls-Royce? British Aerospace? I can go on. Sadly, after the war the Brits simply did not have the resources like the US had. I have a lot of respect for Brittish scientists and engineers. They did a lot more with the little they had.
@worldwidestuff5567
2 жыл бұрын
@@hanznel8488 You got me on Rolls-Royce!
@lancecampbell4323
3 жыл бұрын
What I was looking for is how the idea of jet engines came about. It’s not like it’s a logical extension of propeller technology. What was the ah-ha moment where jets were conceptualized?
@stanthology
3 жыл бұрын
Dumping too much fuel into a turbocharger. That's what I read somewhere anyway. If you think about it, it makes sense. All the parts are there.
@iangrimshaw1
2 жыл бұрын
An interesting point. I'd say it could have sort of occured to aircraft engineers in the 1930s as they were getting significant increases in power out-puts from turbo and super charged engines. As LJK Setright wrote in his excellent book,'Some Unusual Engines' on '30s piston engine develoment, "The only trouble with this design philosophy is....you are in grave danger of losing your pistons altogether and inventing the gas turbine."
@krichardt
3 жыл бұрын
“Creation of british passenger airline travel”
@sEngineer-il8im
3 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail is my pfp lol
@Mark_Ocain
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't find any footage of a Viscount? LOL
@johnlawrence9594
3 жыл бұрын
There were not 486 members of Congress, just 435.
@laure5333
3 жыл бұрын
At 0:33 "...[Sir Frank Whittle]...have invented the Jet Engine..." The eternal wrong wording !!! If by words "Jet Engine" the text of this video documentary meant the airborne TurboJet engine (or airborne Turboreactive engine), then [the documentary] it might be right, otherwise the credit for the first airborne reactive engine goes to "Coanda-1910" which was using a MotorJet engine, both plane and engine being designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coanda in...1910...!!!
@garrington120
Жыл бұрын
You have to be joking . The Coanda craft caught fire on its one and only "flight " its petrol engined run LOL Motor Jet produced a thrust less than a hair dryer
@RTD1947
3 жыл бұрын
This is not as advertised!!
@gilzor9376
3 жыл бұрын
Finding that to be typical. This is more like 'propaganda' . . . . . . as is many other uploads.
@barracuda7018
3 жыл бұрын
Britain inventing the jet engine is another myth, similar to king Arthur pulling the Excalibur from stone. The first jet powered aircraft Henkel 178 flew in 1939 two years before Whittle's design. The first operational jet fighter was Me262 powered by an axial flow engine, which was more advanced than centrifugal compressor engine. Whittle's 1930 patent wouldn't fly, it was flawed. It took him 11 years to make it world whereas Germans only needed 4 years after Von Ohain registered his patent.Since there existed significant differences to Whittle's patent, his patent was approved. But I like Brits still pretending that Von Ohain has copied Whittle's patent. Whittle's 1930 patent was dead end. In short Britain didn't invent the jet engines we fly today.
@ab8jeh
9 ай бұрын
When they flew is one thing, but when the engines were running producing thrust is another. I thought the W.1X was operational slightly earlier in 1937 than the HeS 1 engine. Was that not the case?
@ab8jeh
9 ай бұрын
The reason the test flight was later was also mainly down to British stupidity in the military, not realising what they had and development lacked funding unlike the German programme. It's true that Ohain developed the axial turbojet independently for the most part, however he had to change the design once he became aware of the Whittle patent. This is written in Ohain's autobiography.
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