The History Of The Jet Aircraft Engine

 

How the jet got its start. It’s an amazing story of technical neglect and government  blindness and ineptitude.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle

Click to access 1945%20-%202018.PDF

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%200879.html

http://www.lutterworthmuseum.org/

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljetengine.htm

 

 

Considering how quickly GE put the J31 together I wonder if the Germans weren’t the only ones looking at those patents. Some how six months is an unbelievably short time to be putting together a task of that magnitude even if you have a working engine.  I  think that GE had been doing some under the table engineering.

 

http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19520085000

http://neam.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1049

http://www.gereports.com/post/126449265200/the-first-american-jet-engine-was-born-inside-a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Alexander_Moss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J31

http://www.gereports.com/the-story-of-the-1st-us-jet-engine-the-hush-hush-boys-wanted-to-win-the-war-but-they-ended-up-shrinking-the-world/

http://www.gereports.com/video-the-last-of-the-hush-hush-boys-recalls-how-ge-built-the-first-american-jet-engine/

http://www.gereports.com/post/125861650985/found-this-old-ge-comic-book-tells-the-whole

Anyway this is the story of the engine that changed everything.

Here are some more posts about aircraft engines.

https://theartsmechanical.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/aircraft-engines-from-time-that-airplanes-were-made-from-wood-wire-and-canvas/

https://theartsmechanical.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/the-packard-merlin-rolls-royce-engine-and-avro-canadian-lancaster-bomber/

https://theartsmechanical.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/the-pratt-and-whitney-wasp/