| Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain are both recognized as being inventors of the jet engine, each worked separately. Frank Whittle was the first to register a patent for the jet engine.
Hans von Ohain is considered the designer of the first operational turbojet engine. WWII: Germany produced various glide bombs (the first smart bombs), the V-1 flying bomb (which was the first cruise missile weapon) and the first ballistic missile weapon, (the V-2 rocket). 1930: Sir Frank Whittle of England patents his design for a gas turbine for jet propulsion. 1936: Hans von Ohian and Max Hahn of Germany develop and patent | their own jet design. 1939: In August, the company Ernst Heinkel Aircraft flies the first gas turbine jet plane, the HE-178. 1941: Sir Frank Whittle designs the successful Gloster Meteor turbojet. 1942: Dr. Franz Anselm develops the Junkers Jumo 004 an axial-flow turbojet, used in the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first operational jet fighter. COMPRESSOR: The compressor is the center of the jet engine. It is composed of a series of spinning blades that suck air through an inlet and compress the air. It is then passed on to the combustion chamber in which it is burned. COMBUSTION CHAMBER: The part of a jet engine where high pressure | air from the compressor is mixed with fuel and is then burned. CORE: The high- pressure section of the jet engine. It is comprised of the high-pressure compressor, the combustion chamber and the turbine. STAGE: The name given to the row of blades in a jet engine. TURBINE: The machine that drives the compressor. It runs on the hot gases that rush from the combustor. AFTERBURNER: A device which doubles the power of a fighter engine. Fuel is sprayed into the exhaust duct and mixed with the hot air blown back by the engine. It is then ignited, producing a powerful “blow torch” which rushes out of the nozzle at the rear of the exhaust. |
