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  2. Frank Whittle - Wikipedia

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    He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly turbojet engine as well as Austria’s Anselm ...

  3. Turbojet - Wikipedia

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    The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle . The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine (that drives the compressor).

  4. History of the jet engine - Wikipedia

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    Gas turbine engines, commonly called "jet" engines, could do that. The key to a practical jet engine was the gas turbine, used to extract energy from the engine itself to drive the compressor. The gas turbine was not an idea developed in the 1930s: the patent for a stationary turbine was granted to John Barber in England in 1791.

  5. Hans von Ohain - Wikipedia

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    Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 1911 – 13 March 1998) was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine. [1] Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-inventor of the turbojet engine. However, the historical timelines show that von Ohain was still a ...

  6. Jet engine - Wikipedia

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    Invented: 1791, 1928, 1935: Jet engine during take-off showing visible hot exhaust (Germanwings Airbus A319) A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, ...

  7. Junkers Jumo 004 - Wikipedia

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    The Junkers Jumo 004 was the world's first production turbojet engine in operational use, and the first successful axial compressor turbojet engine. Some 8,000 units were manufactured by Junkers in Germany late in World War II, powering the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter and the Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance/bomber, along with prototypes, including the Horten Ho 229.

  8. Power Jets W.1 - Wikipedia

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    Later sent to the US in October 1941, becoming the first jet engine to run in North America. W.1A Based on W.1, 1,450 lbf (6.45KN) air-cooled turbine disc and incorporating features intended for W.2. Used for second series of test flights of E.29/39 W4041/G beginning on 16 February 1942, and fitted with fuel barostat. Later featured modified ...

  9. Lockheed J37 - Wikipedia

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    The XJ37 was being worked on at the same time as competing Westinghouse axial-flow designs undergoing development, the 19A and 19B, were being test-run through the 1943-45 period, resulting in America's first production axial-flow turbojet engine, the Westinghouse J30, of which some 260 examples were made for the earliest American military jets ...