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 ...LIGHT, II May 1951 549
Mr Commodore Sir Frank Whittle,
K.B.E., C.B., M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.,
Hon. M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., creator
of the Whittle turbojet. Sir Frank
is seen as a Group Captain, R.A.F.
THE PIONEERS
IN the pages which follow it is...
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 ... chubby
little monoplane had been made available to grace the head
of the banqueting room, in company with an original Whittle
turbojet and a glinting Sapphire.
There was general acclamation when Sir Frank Whittle mountedto the E.28's cockpit and the little machine—still airworthy, in
spite of its gruelling career—bobbed forward on its nosewheel, asif curtseying to the man who made its constructio...
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 ...Whittle jet-propulsion
development from 1937 onwards, including the first test flights made on a
Gloster aircraft in 1941.
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Group Captain Frank Whittle, the
designer of the jet power unit.
THE first British-designed and British-built jet-pro pelled aircraft made its first test flight in,. May, 1941. The aircraft was a Gloster machine ...
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 ...ster E.28/39, an Historic British Aircraft
which Opened a New Era in Aviation
By ROBERT J. BLACKBURN
As LEADING partners in the wartime enterprise which produced the Gloster-Whittle jet aircraft, Sir Frank Whittle
and Mr. George Carter are uniquely qualified to introduce a biography of that aircraft, better known, perhaps, as
the Gloster E. 28/39. We have invited their comments, which appear below...
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 ...d that a previ
ous deal set up by BSI, involving
spare parts for South African
Lockheed Martin Hercules trans
port aircraft to be supplied via
Portugal, never materialised. •
AIR COMMODORE
SIR FRANK WHITTLE OM, KBE, CB, CDR US LEGION OF MERIT, FRS, FENG, MA
A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle
will be held in Westminster Abbey on Friday, 15th November ...
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 ...and defence-systems opera
tion, replacing Bill Olson, who is
to retire. Schluter was formerly
vice-president and general manag
er of the unit's space-transportation
business.
AIR COMMODORE
SIR FRANK WHITTLE OM, KBE, CB, CDR US LEGION OF MERIT, FRS, FENG, MA
A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle
will be held in Westminster Abbey on Friday, 15th November ...
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 ...er
to the Museum and the latter to the
Smithsonian Institute of Washington,
U.S.A. Many people who have been
closely connected with the development
of the aircraft gas-turbine—or air-
turbine, as Sir Frank Whittle first
called it—assembled to honour the
inventor and his associates and to wit-
ness this historic double presentation.
Dr. H. Shaw, B.Sc, A.R.C.S.,
Director of the Science Museum, intro...
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 ...tions of the
role of air power, and the need for co-operation with the U.S.
Army and Navy. It will be interesting, when the question does
arise, to see which group eventually carries the day.
Sir Frank Whittle : Commons Questions
IN the House of Commons last Monday, Mr. Wedgwood Benn (Lab., Bristol S.E.) asked the Minister of Supply if the recent
criticisms of British jet-engine development ...
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 ...(5) Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. (6)
Iliffe and Lord McGowan.
Lord
(/) Marshal of the R.A.r.
Sir John Salmond and
Mr. Fred Sigrist. (8)
Capt. J. ("Mutt ") Sum-
mers with Air Commo-
dore Sir Frank Whittle.
(9) Sir A. H. Roy Fedden,
Lord Sempill and Rear-
Admiral M. S. Slotter...
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 ...rge Edwards, Vickers-Armstrongs director and aircraft chief designer, who
has been largely responsible for the Viscount 700 and its sales. Beside him during
a fight in the 630 prototype is seen Sir Frank Whittle, who in a sense made turbo
prop and turbojet transport possible.
ND PERSONALITIES
Copt. A. S. Johnson, fight captain of
B.E.A.'s Discovery Flight. This
photograph was taken in a Vik...
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 ...88 F L \^TTVI>K - 1949
THE
Whittle Goes SouthL
AST week A. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle
paid a visit to the South Coast. At
Air Service Training, Ltd., Hamble, he
gave a talk to the students, who repre-
sent some 20 nationalities. The occasion
also marked a special reunion,...
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 ...r than
could be obtained with a piston engine and airscrew at that
speed. Thus, even at high speed at sea level the turbojet
The Avro-Canada C-102
(Four R.-R. Derwent Ss)
A Paper read by A. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle
before the Aero Club de France
was at least equivalent to the piston engine and airscrew
in overall efficiency. At height there was a substantial
improvement due to the effect of low air...
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 ... accompanied the Minister on the trip
from London Airport, including Sir Miles and Lady
Thomas, the Hon. Thomas Pakenham (the Minister's son),
Mr. G. S. Lindgren, Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley,
Sir Frank Whittle, Sir William Murphy, Mr. J. Maxwell,
Mr. Whitney Straight, Mr. J. Booth, Mr. K. Granville,
Mr. E. Nelson, Mr. C. Abell and representatives of
B.O.A.C. and associated airlines
With Capt. ...
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 ...illion) into the turnover of three to have an adverse effect on the
major American aerospace companies programme,
and their subcontractors, representing
the cost of the Saturn V booster stage. Sir Frank Whittle's US Honour
the spacecraft itself, the astronauts' Sir Frank Whittle is to receive the
capsule and the engine which brought 1969 Tony Jannus Award at Tampa,
the capsule back to Earth....
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 ...gain much favour. Expendi
ture on the conflict in Vietnam and the
increasing severity of the colour probr
lent are major factors which are likely
to have an adverse effect on the
programme.
Sir Frank Whittle's US Honour
Sir Frank Whittle is to receive the
1969 Tony Jannus Award at Tampa,
Fla, on January 24.
He will thus become the first foreigner
to be given this award, presented
annua...
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 ... no unit had
been built that was sufficiently light for
the application to aircraft.
On the question of the intake, his
lordship said that several previous
patents had been recalled in the trial.
Sir Frank Whittle's 1931 specification
had indicated the need for careful inlet
design and, later in the thirties, Signor
Campini had suggested a divergent inlet
"to convert the kinetic energy of the air
...
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 ... GREEN national markings dis
tinguish these D.H. Chipmunks—three of six
ordered for the Eire Air Corps to supplement
the Miles Masters and Magisters at the
E.F.T.S. at Baldonnel.
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Sir Frank Whittle's Future
RUMOURS, current in London last week, that A. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle is considering an invitation to carry out gas-
turbine research work in the United States were later subst...
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 ...r of Display event*.
("flight " cop/right drawing)
Gloster Meteor and de Havilland Vampire (and, for that
matter, the bulk of jet units in world service) are based
on the pioneer work of A. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle, an
ex-R.A.F. cadet. In affording extreme performance the
turbojet shows up to particular advantage in a fighter,
but it must be admitted that fuel consumption continues
higher than coul...
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 ...a of "invention."
Farnborough, Hants CHARLES BURNET
SIR,—I was most interested to read the letter (October 3)
from Mr Patrick Johnson, who must indeed be the very
man who prepared the drawing for Sir Frank Whittle's
first patent specification, a reproduction of which was
published with my letter in the issue of September 19.
Since coming across the paper by Maurice Roy, to which
I drew attention (...
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 ...uilt air-
craft at Merignac.
SUPER MISSILE:
(right) The Philco
Sidewinder air-to-air
guided missile, now
operational in the
Pacific and Mediter-
ranean with U.S.
Navy F9F fighters.
HERE AND THERE
Sir Frank Whittle Honoured
AT Philadelphia on October 17, A. Cdre.Sir Frank Whittle was awarded die Frank-
lin Medal, highest honour of the FranklinInstitute, for his "pioneer work in develop-
ing aircraf...
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