But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the skies it ... PA Media Churchill was keen on producing 1,000 jet engines but the project did not develop until the end of the war Further delays to ...

I've been asked to tell you the story of jet propulsion, from the time 20 years ago when it was just an idea for making aeroplanes fly higher and faster, right up to the present. It's a long story ...

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 ...

Many car companies built engines but all, following the design of the Wright brothers, had propellers. Frank Whittle ... of the jet age. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention.

The jet engine has a long and storied history. Its development occurred spontaneously amongst several unrelated groups in the early 20th Century. Frank Whittle ... With the invention of the ...