W hen a scientist in China invented a new jet engine that could change the future of jet propulsion, it went largely unnoticed. Jua Tang's jet engine that turns electricity directly into thrust ...

Sir Frank Whittle who first patented his ideas in 1930 for the jet engine and which culminated in the worlds first ever successful liquid fuelled turbo- jet engine ground run on the 12th April ...

Other discoveries we didn't know originated in Britain were the jet engine, developed by Sir Frank ... were not aware the cat ...

The jet engine has a long and storied history. Its development occurred spontaneously amongst several unrelated groups in the early 20th Century. Frank Whittle submitted a UK patent on a design in ...

This is the oldest running jet engine in the world. It was manufactured by Rolls Royce at Barnoldswick in Lancashire in 1943 and is of the type used in the RAF's first jet fighter the Gloster Meteor.