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Frank Whittle


Aerospace Engineer.

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine. The idea was first patented by Maxime Guillaume in 1921, 9 years before Whittle's patent, however it was not brought to fruition as the compressor technology of the era was not advanced enough to permit its construction. Whittle's operational engines were developed some years earlier than Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain and he is regarded as the father of jet propulsion.


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1.) John Golley (2010). Jet: Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet Engine. Eloy Gutierrez. p. 34. ISBN 9781907472008. "Although he had occasionally cut Church Parade, he had once held very strong religious beliefs, but these had eroded to such an extent that he had come to regard himself as an atheist. "By degrees", he said "I was forced to the conclusion that my beliefs were inconsistent with scientific teaching. Once the seeds of doubt were sown the whole structure of my former religious beliefs rapidly collapsed, and I swung to the other extreme"."

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