Saturday, January 01, 2022

does it have wheels? Check! Is it cool? Check! Then having met the car guy bloggy requirements, I hereby post for your enjoyment, the 1st jet engine


this year’s Goodwood Freddie March Spirit of Aviation display is not an aircraft at all, but an engine. The first jet engine in fact, as designed (by Sir Frank Whittle) and built (by Rolls-Royce) in 1943.

the Dyson company bought the engine in 2014, and Michael Hummil, a research engineer for Dyson fired it up at Goodwood this year

https://www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/goodwood-revival/2018/9/what-makes-the-whittle-jet-engine-so-special


the inventor, Whittle, was extraordinary. Tried to be a pilot in the Royal Air Force at age 15. They should have let him. 


3 comments:

  1. I believe your post about artist Terence Cuneo has a painting of this exact engine being tested

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    1. indeed it does! I was waiting to see if anyone would notice!

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