Frank Whittle

✶June 1, 1907

†August 8, 1996

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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain, who designed the first-to-fly turbojet engine as well as Austria’s Anselm Franz.

British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996)

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Biography from the article Frank Whittle on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.