Date in year · 1937 · The 1930s
On April 12, 1937, sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England. Antonio Carluccio, Joseph Estrada, Yoshiro Mori would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · April 12, 1937
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.
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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
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British Royal Air Force engineer and air officer (1907–1996)
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.
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