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    • Innovative Aviation Patent That Translated Into Global Travel And Defence Industry

      23-Apr-2011

      Technical Translations pay tribute to Sir Frank Whittle's invention of the jet engine.

      Seventy years ago on the 15th May 1941, the first viable jet engine powered aircraft made its maiden flight and led rapidly to the development of global travel and transport, which we now take for granted.

      A junior officer in the RAF, Whittle believed that the exisiting technology of piston engines and propellors had serious limitations in terms of fuel consumption and altitude and set about finding a new technological innovation which could overcome these limitations.

      Whittle filed a patent for his jet engine technology in 1930, a year after the RAF had declared his idea impractical. He then set about translating his technology into a working aircraft.

      While German engineers had access to greater financial resources, Whittle had to fight to gain investors and as a result it was German engineer Hans Von Ohhain who got the first jet powered aircraft off the ground in 1939. Whittle's son Ian states his disappointment that the scientific establishment "try to attribute the jet engine jointly to my father and to a German scientist who was a schoolboy when my father filed his patent". German engineers were found to have translated copies of Whittle's patent in their research facilities.

      Sadly the British Government effectively handed Whittle's technology to the Americans after the end of the Second World War and it was left to US firms like Boeing to commercialise the jet engine.

      Today the global defence industry, transport and travel industries rely on the jet engine and it is appropriate that we pay tribute to a brilliant British scientist 70 years after his first jet powered flight.

       

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