Gas Turbine Engine Pioneers

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The concept of an aircraft powered by a gas turbine engine with an inlet, compressor, combustor, turbine and nozzle, was conceived in 1929 by Frank Whittle, a Royal Air Force pilot and engineer who filed a patent in January 1930. Almost simultaneously, while Whittle struggled to gain serious support...

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