Genius Of The Jet | The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Frank Whittle | HD Documentary

[@jamestaylor6041]

Still to this day it amazes me just how thick politicians really are , people with no scientific back ground making decisions on matters of great importance in science and engineering when they can not listen or refuse to listen to those who are the experts in these fields . Frank , I hope you are doing mach 6 with your hair on fire mate , thank you for changing the world old man , I salute you Sir .

[@Dronescapes]

James, the truth is that his biggest detractor and true nemesis was A.A. Griffith, a fellow engineer and the only person appointed to judge Whittle's work. Griffith had penned a seminal paper on axial compressors back in 1926 (axial would be used by the German Hans Von Ohain a decade later). In 1929 he ridiculed Whittle, and also cited false mistakes. If you take the time to watch our exclusive and rare interviews with the British genius, you will realize what he thought were on who delayed the introduction of the turbojet in Britain by several years. It is quite obvious that Griffith had a blatant conflict of interests, and Whittle represented a potential distraction. As a matter of fact Whittle purposely ditched an axial solution for all the very reasons that a decade later plagued the German turbojet, making it operationally useless. As correctly predicted by the young, brilliant Whittle, the axial turbojet would eventually surpass the centrifugal one, but it would take decades for that to happen, and those were also crucial times (WWII.) Politics had little to do with the 1929 decisions, a jealous engineer, and perhaps snobbery played a key role in history. Here is the full Whittle's interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYStlayLfNF4bdk And here is the full, exclusive Von Ohain's interview, where you can realize how clueless he was to the true benefits of the turbojet, or how he admits that Whittle was way ahead of him in the mid-30s (imagine is he had not been stopped in 1929!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIXOkGt9eNyosM0