Sir Frank Whittle was born in 1907 in Coventry and from an early age he was fascinated by aviation. In 1923 he joined the Royal Air Force as a trainee mechanic and in 1926 he attended the RAF ...

An experimental engine created by Air Commodore [Frank Whittle], RAF engineer air officer ... GE started a school for future jet engineers and technicians with the primary lesson being the ...

It was manufactured by Rolls Royce at Barnoldswick in Lancashire in 1943 and is of the type used in the RAF's first jet fighter the Gloster Meteor. It represents the start of the "jet age" of ...