Ultimately, the Meteor was not great and not terrible. It was a steady, reliable bird, and proved useful for the British and ...

The first British jet aircraft the Gloster E28/39 Experimental aircraft first flew with a W1 Whittle engine on 15th May 1941 with a thrust of 1000lbs at RAF Cranwell England. This led to the ...

In it he explained how in future aircraft would not use propellers, but instead what we call today 'jet' engines. In the 1930s Whittle continued his work on designs for a jet engine but it was not ...

Britain's first jet aircraft, became airborne. To avoid the possibility of bomb damage at Brockworth, a likely Luftwaffe target, this diminutive aircraft had been fitted with Sir Frank Whittle's ...

Frank Whittle submitted a UK patent on a design ... By the end of World War II, a smattering of military jet aircraft had entered service, and the propeller was on the way out as far as high ...