• Thumbnail for Power Jets W.1
    The Power Jets W.1 (sometimes called the Whittle W.1) was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets. The W.1 was built under...
    12 KB (1,291 words) - 13:52, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Power Jets W.2
    Power Jets W.2 was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd. Like the earlier Power Jets W.1...
    15 KB (1,892 words) - 21:08, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Power Jets
    Power Jets was a British company set up by Frank Whittle for the purpose of designing and manufacturing jet engines. The company was nationalised in 1944...
    21 KB (2,370 words) - 06:44, 11 July 2023
  • The Power Jets WU (Whittle Unit) was a series of three very different experimental jet engines produced and tested by Frank Whittle and his small team...
    12 KB (1,517 words) - 14:35, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Welland
    Whittle's team at Power Jets and known as the W.2, Whittle's second design and the first intended for eventual production. Power Jets was working with...
    11 KB (1,367 words) - 06:36, 12 May 2024
  • imported Power Jets W.1X that was flown to the US from Britain in 1941, and the I-A itself was based on the design of the improved Power Jets W.2B, the...
    12 KB (1,359 words) - 14:00, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gloster E.28/39
    Gloster E.28/39 (category World War II jet aircraft of the United Kingdom)
    Whittle to develop an otherwise conventional aircraft fitted with a Power Jets W.1 turbojet engine. Flying for the first time on 15 May 1941, two E.28/39...
    25 KB (3,122 words) - 07:06, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Havilland Goblin
    The Goblin was the second British jet engine to fly, after Whittle's Power Jets W.1, and the first to pass a type test and receive a type certificate issued...
    12 KB (1,247 words) - 03:12, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Whittle
    non-existent, the latter was also expressed by workers at Power Jets. On 1 December Cripps advised Power Jets' directors that the Treasury would not pay more than...
    80 KB (10,716 words) - 13:47, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bell P-59 Airacomet
    Bell P-59 Airacomet (category World War II jet aircraft of the United States)
    Power Jets W.1, which he took back to the U.S. He also arranged for an example of the engine, the Whittle W.1X turbojet, to be flown to the U.S. on 1...
    20 KB (2,366 words) - 11:11, 27 April 2024