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Frank Whittle

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Noun1.Frank Whittle - English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
Sir Frank Whittle, Whittle


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So do the book's factual errors about aviation - misidentifying the SR-71 Blackbird as the SR-171 (no such plane exists), calling Frank Whittle the inventor of rocket (rather than jet) propulsion, calling the Air Transport Association the Airline Transport Association, and so on.
Flying Blind, Flying Safe by Poole, Robert W., Jr. / Reason
von Ohain, 79 -- now a senior research engineer at the University of Dayton (Ohio) Research Institute--and Sir Frank Whittle, 84--a British aviator who now serves as an adjunct research professor at the U.
Turbojet's inventors earn Draper Prize by Science News
Flight Lieutenant Frank Whittle is sent to Cambridge as a mature student by the RAF and enters Peterhouse.
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