Jet Engine Pioneers | The Invention Of The Turbojet

Well.... It can be discussed who was the father... Hans Von Ohain was the first one to make it work and fly... But be because Wittle was on the winning side of the was, real history was nicely altered...

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Is that Raymond Baxter narrating? Very appropriate!

Some years back I stayed at Brownsover Hall nr Rugby. It’s where Sir Frank did his development work. Some of the rooms have photos of the same room on the wall showing drawings and parts scattered everywhere with Sir Frank working there too

😮 from absolutely broken 1923 Weimar Republic to 1938 Nazi Germany ready to settle a score... 15 years 😐

The Germans were on the better path with the axial flow design. You can only get so much from a centrifugal flow design.

I think the Germans were running them earlier, perhaps this was the first centrifugal flow turbojet.

The blythe stupidity of Sir Stafford Cripps
And the wilfully venal dullwittedness of subsequent governments. Should really shape today's expectations - Our Politicians haven't really got a (banned Anglo-Saxon verb) clue about anything .
Pure luck Germany's leaders were as inept mid WW2

they did that in 1920... and even today its Alien tech...

Jet engine ??
Who invented jet propulsion ?? The romanian TRAIAN VUIA !!!

early on in the whole mess with the air ministry the US offered him to back his research and support him in what he would need .but he wanted to stick it out with England I know at the end he was kicking himself for not jumping on the offer because it would have allowed him to build the engines he wanted instead of watching his ideas languish for years

Turbo compound engine has entered the chat

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Not one word lost about the German scientists and engineers, just scraping the Ohain surface, this was more about Whittle, all too onesided.

What a brilliant mind of a man,... yet the stubborn, stuffy, and small minded British governmental beaurocrats could not visualize the potential greatness of his endeavor. On the contrary, they made it almost impossible for him to succeed, and adding insult to injury, they stole his patent rights and gave his rights to their loyal financial supporters in the aviation industry. BUT his legacy as the first, will not be erased from history.

That Eric Chubby Brown doesn't look right without his flying helmet.

Seems like they knew it worked early on. And tried what ever they could to keep Whittle off the idea as long as fhey could.

Great documentary, too bad it ignores the work of people like Jens William Ægidius Elling (father of the gas turbine)

Thanks for this, There has been a lot of myth and revision concerning the history and development of the jet engine and reading the comments show it continues.
As with most things there was existing science and ideas from all corners, BUT the very first proposal of a reaction engine being used as a prime mover for aircraft was made by Whittle. That is an absolute fact. His first patent for that idea was available in the libraries of Berlin before hostilities broke out. Whittle also patented the turbofan and re-heat (after burning) to cover every possible iteration. This was for his supersonic engine. Really, for once, a single mind was responsible for a great invention and I'd go further and suggest Whittle was a genius engineer who managed to solve countless problems in the construction of these engines which remain the state of the art.
Edit: The fact he managed it all practically in a shed makes it even more impressive.

Wtf is up with this video quality? Picasso vision?

But if you build a smaller jet engine and put four turbos in it, it's more efficient and consumes less

Great man.

Sick of whittle Germans had them flying long before him

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thank you @Dronescapes i really enjoyed this documentary! rest in peace sir eric winkle brown and sir frank whittle

There are big lessons here but unfortunately the people most needing to learn them, probably won't. Especially by those in power. It seems a folly of the human condition.... Get power, leave mind at the door. Stellar individuals like Whittle subject to the whims of much lessor men. Politics and big business certainly isn't a meritocracy.

Many thanks @DroneScapes for your replies in the comments section. Your patience is remarkable. Casting pearls before swine, unfortunately.

Great video, but the image enhancement/upscale does more harm than good.

There is something wrong with the British. Starting projects that they take to almost completion and then dump. Not just wasting investment and time but a wasting their future.

60 years after metrication they still haven't got the job done. Over 40 years in the EEC and EU and they backed out. HSR is a real forehead slap job.

The only hope for any intelligent Brit with get up and go, is to get up and go. To almost anywhere else.

This fine man should definitely be named as the single most significant designer that contributed to the advancement of aviation as we know it today some almost 90 years ago. Perhaps even beyond that depending upon how long the idea of the jet engine was actually simmering in his genius brain housing group! Not only in aviation, but for other industrial applications where this tech is obviously beneficial on other machine. Chuck Yeager here in the States helped advance Mr. Whittle's idea even further in practice whilst being the guinea pig the further brainchild of the engineers lol. Of course, that's my opinion, anyway. Outstanding film!

We've always had brilliant engineers in Britain, and our politicians have nearly always been short-sighted, blithering idiots.

As appears tipical of the U.K. they never realize just what they have until its gone.
The fact that it was given to the U.S. is a shane on the powers that be but stupidity plays a bi g part in
Storys of this kind, and the completley unwarranted removal of his own company from producing engines i think put the U.K. behind id developing the ducted fan engines of today.
I think that very ezrly on this man saw thevadvantage of the fan engine and has it been left with him we could have seen its introduction a good few year before it actually came into being.
The aircraft industry world wide owes this gengleman a lot, in fact a great deal more than he actually got, and all because of red tape.
There is a country where he is thought very highly of, and its not the U.S. its Russia, every aircraft company there holds him in great esteem and just about everyone who works for then can tell you straight out who invented the turbine, so though it may be something he may never have known
It is good to know that some do give credit where credit is due regardless of vrom where they came from, in fact they adopt thecsame principles to development as he used, it may not function as you want the first time but thecsecond or the third will be 100:% better.
Even today i look at this bit of envineering as a real magic bit of work!!-

Ten years of wasted effort were wasted using the centrifugal compressor engine when it was obvious that the axial compressor engine was the way to go.

Sir Frank Whittle was a most remarkable man. A man who was ultimately very shabbily treated by the UK.

Very notably, I think, although the centrifugal turbine was not the finest iteration of the Jet engine, It was well within the range of the then feasible metallurgy. The axial flow turbine, which is now universally used (and used by the Germans) was for this reason to have a vastly short life while in use.

One can only wonder what might have been, had the jet engine proceeded apace prior to 1939?

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i thought it was the red barron who created the turbo jet

Editing is a bit off at times.