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 ...LIGHT. 27 October 1949
**i¥© Airscrew Necessary.*
Concerning the Gloster 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, S...
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 ...ulsion for aircraft as long ago as 1928. Itis also recalled that his early efforts were beset with difficulties and discouragements,
until, on the evening of May 15th, 1941, he at last saw the little Gloster E.28/39, designed
by W. G. Carter and piloted by the late P. E. G. Sayer, rise from the runway at Cranwell.
A knighthood and a monetary award are but two expressions of the nation's debt to Ai...
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 ...marine Rolls-Royce S.6B (which won the Schneider
Trophy in 1931 at 340 m.p.h.), a beautiful aircraft even by to-day's
standards, dominates this view of the farthest gallery. In the
background are the Gloster E.28/39, the Whittle W.I turbojet, a
Japanese Baka kamikaze, and some other recent acquisitions.
(Above) Magnificently constructed model dirigibles appear almostto be floating in a glass-case ...
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 ...Americas),the Comet would indeed "steal the show" every time with
those tens of thousands of American airline travellers whotake their winter vacations in the Bermudas.
Glasgow. COMET ENTHUSIAST.
THE GLOSTER E.28/39
I READ with great interest the article by Robert j. Blackburnin Flight dated October 27th, concerning the Gloster
E.28/39 prototypes. It reminded me of an incident whichoccurred on Fri...
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 ...y taxying tests at Brockworth (Gloster's
home aerodrome) in April 1941 the E.28 was moved by
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Cranwell, 7.40 p.m.. May IS, 1941. "Jerry" Sayer, the Power Jets
W.l engine and the Gloster E.28/39 airborne for the first time (heading
picture). The aeroplane had previously made three hops, each of about
200 yards, on May 7 during taxi trials at Gloster's Airfield at Brockworth ...
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 ...ned . . . have
all been endorsed by subsequent flights. . . . The E.28 is
a most pleasant little aeroplane to handle, particularly on
account of the excellent field of vision from the pilot's seat,
. GLOSTER E.28/39
Span ; 29ft
Length 25ft 3in
Height ** 3...
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 ...32 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 7TH, 1946
RIVER CLASS" EVOLUTION
850 lb. weight. It flew in the Gloster E.28, and after
further development it was conservatively rated at 1,450 lb.
thrust and became the power unit for the twin-engined
Meteor prototype, the Gloster F9/40.
In addition to producing...
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 ...s of the
Gloster company's contribution to aeronautical engineering were
the well-preserved Gladiator, now registered G-AMRK (the
owner is V. H. Bellamy of Flightways, Ltd.); the Science Museum's
Gloster E.28/39 (which on May 15th, 1941, became the first
British jet-propelled aircraft), and a Meteor N.F. 11 with belly and
drop tanks, which, with the exception of its roundels, was painted
ma...
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 ...832 FLIGHT International, 24 May 1962
ight and Level (+)
SHOULDN'T Britain's airlines stop scattering their buckshot ? What nonsense it is for
corporations and independents to de
vote so much ener...
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 ...JUNE 1945 FLIGHT 603
Britain's Aircraft
Exhibition in the Heart of London, Opening June 21st
y* N announcement that an exhibition of Britain's air-r\ craft is being organised in London was made in
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 ...FLIGHT, 22 June 1950
THE GENTLE GIANT: The Brabazon I prototype is seen on her first arrival at London Airport. On the following day (June 16th)she made three short demonstration flights round the Air...
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 ...d as a Patent attorney and, eajoying the confidence of
Whittle, helped him draft his early patents. He joined Power
Jets soon after its formation, supervised the installation of the WI
engines in the Gloster E.28/39 and is now managing director of
Power Jets (Research and Development), Ltd., the company
holding the nationally-owned patents in the gas-turbine field.
It is not too much to claim that...
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 ...78a FLIGHT International, 13 May 1971
The Gloster E.28/39 come into being purely
as a testbed for the Power Jets engines.
It was designed in consultation with that
firm and Aerodynamics Department, RAE
Farnborough, and was virtually the m...
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 ... on which one of the
Royal Family has travelled by the Flight
on taking up Service duty.
Historic Turbojets
A SPECIAL article in this issue recallsthe flight-testing of early British
turbojets in the Gloster E.28/39 The
first of these historic units to fly, the Wi,
has this week been presented to the
nation by Power Jets (Research and
Development), Ltd., while the WiX,
the pre-flight version, ir b...
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 ...e Hawker Engineering Co, for whom
he designed the Heron and Hornbill single-seat fighters and theHorsley day-bomber. He later became historically famous as
the designer of the Whittle turbine-engined Gloster E.28/39 flight-tested in May 1941. In the same reference work I found that
Mr (now Sir) Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAes, became chief designerof Hawkers in 1925.
But still no clue turned up to locate ...
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 ...Fl IGHT International, 21 February 1963
Flying Steel
25 Years of Stainless Steel in the Jet Age
ON April 12 last, a dinner at Lancaster House, presided over by the then Minister of Aviation, Mr Pet...
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 ...Ministry of
Civil Aviation.
Early Turbojet for U.S.
AS a symbol of Anglo-Americantechnical collaboration during thewar, the original Power Jets WiX turbo-
jet, first power unit to be installed in the
Gloster E.28/39 (for taxying trials), will
be presented to America at the Smith-
sonian Institute in Washington on
November 8th. Air Commodore Sir Frank
Whittle and Mr. W. E. P. Johnson, the
managing ...
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 ...usiasm of himself
" Flight " photograph.
The inventor of the aircraft gas turbine, Air Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle, seen with his
earliest power units, the Power Jets Wi and WiX. In the background is the
Gloster E.28/39, the first successful gas-turbine-powered aircraft, in which they
were installed. " "•..-• -"-' . ;. ; :
the United Kingdom built and used it to power an aeroplane
on the first jet fli...
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 ...ibits. These, both actual aircraft and
engines and models, are arranged in approximately chrono-logical order through the galleries, the farthest room housing
such recent acquisitions as the historic Gloster E.28/39 andthe Whittle W.i turbojet. Also on view are a sectioned Rolls-
Royce Trent turboprop, a Derwent, a Japanese Baka kamikazeand a part-sectioned V 1 flying bomb. Models bring the story
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