Labels:text | book | handwriting OCR: A FRANK WHITTLE MICHEL WIBAULT born 1907 fl. 1960 E F A SA FLYING T HE FRENCH AIRCRAFT G INSTRUCTOR designer Michel Wibault was H the first person to calculate how I with the Royal Air Force in England, a jet-engined plane could achieve K Frank Whittle was vertical take-off and landing. certain there had to be a better way He showed the plans to many M of powering airplanes than the French companies, but they did N heavy cylinder engine and propeller. not believe such an airplane would P In 1930, he took out a patent for a work. Eventually, in the 1950s, new type of engine - the jet engine. Wibault's ideas were developed R In 1936, after the Air Ministry had by the Hawker Siddeley Aviation S rejected his engine, Whittle got the Company of Bristol, England. T money to develop it independently. In 1960, the very first jump V His first jet plane flew in 1941. jet made a successful test flight. W X Jet Engine Jump Jet Z M 1
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