Sir Frank Whittle

interview with Sir Frank Whittle

[@vickywhittle1494]

I’ve always wondered why I find engineering so interesting, I guess it’s in the blood

[@moto-bruvs666]

I met young Harry Whittle this week and he seems to have it in his blood too

[@FayTheBaby]

"What changes in the aviation industry stand out ?" She asked THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE JET ENGINE ! FFS.

[@tachikomakusanagi3744]

I was just about to post the same thing, she actually sounds annoyed that he didn't say in-flight entertainment or something.

[@jolizland]

She said you invented the jet engine lol

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Hans von Ohain invented the jet engine in Germany... Whittle is just the first in the UK.

[@backpackerthrulife8497]

Frank Whittle changed the world and his invention stands as one the several greatest inventions of all history. He was not only a great inventor but an engineer that developed the theory and technology to develop it. To Englands and the worlds shame he has not received the recognition he deserves.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@backpackerthrulife8497 Frank Whittle was a very unlikely hero and a characature that was fabricated by British propaganda. Whittle who was a boaster and selfish self-promoter was only the fourth person to successfully demonstrate a working jet aircraft engine, he can only be properly credited as the first in the UK. None of Whittles engines were successful, they were too unreliable to meet airworthiness certification and never saw production. Whittle's career was destroyed by the failure of the W.2/500 M.52 engine and his involvement in the Miles M.52 embezzlement scandal. Whittle was arrested and discharged from the RAF amid allegations of extorsion, embezzlement and derliction of duty, he was sacked from Power Jets Ltd the same week as the M.52 program was canceled and he was exiled to a drug rehab in America. Whittle had become addicted to amphetamines and benzodiazapines, and was an admitted alcoholic. Whittle would never work as an aerospace engineer for the remainder of his life. A truly shameful and humiliating chapter in British aviation history.

[@tachikomakusanagi3744]

02:25 - Yes, the SABRE engine is exactly that, and interestingly enough the precusor to it was being demonstrated at this very expo (HOTOL).

[@midlandvideobroadcast]

This interview was recorded by me, when Sir Frank Whittle visited the AeroTec 87 exhibition at the NEC

[@foffbella3904]

Remember your nephew Robert

[@bekluwe]

No word about Hans von Ohain, who built the first jet engine in history. His plane flew in september 1939, five days before WW2. The first British jet plane flew in 1941.

[@roberthorwat6747]

Ohain did say after the war that but for the indifference of the Air Ministry Sir Frank would have had a jet engined aircraft in flight much sooner. Ohain and Whittle had great respect for eachother.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@roberthorwat6747 Whittle was not much of an engineer and was years behind the Germans in development of jet engines, Frank Whittle can only be properly credited as the first in the UK and it is not his design that is used today. The jet engines we use today were first developed in Germany..

[@roberthorwat6747]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 "not much of an engineer"... hmmmm interesting theory.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@roberthorwat6747 *Not a theory lad, proven facts.* *None of Whittles engines were ever successful and he never returned to working in the aerospace industry after being sacked from Power Jets Ltd and discharged from the RAF after being arrested in the M.52 scandal.*

[@roberthorwat6747]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 what book did you get all that from "lad"?

[@foffbella3904]

Hi it’s sienna your great great great Niece,I just want to say I love you so so much even though you’re in heaven,love you

[@WikWak]

The questions she is asking are just awful

[@alejandrovalle2507]

He's the Yoda of Aviation.. ❤

[@aklapotherpotherpothikrebh603]

The interview of 80s or 90s?

[@midlandvideobroadcast3767]

This interview was recorded by me, when Sir Frank Whittle visited the AeroTec 87 exhibition at the NEC

[@aklapotherpotherpothikrebh603]

@@midlandvideobroadcast3767 u r very lucky, so u r meaning that it was late 80s casts!

[@mreese8764]

And they are talking about intercontinental rocket for civilian travel. I wonder what that was about.

[@tachikomakusanagi3744]

@@mreese8764 HOTOL

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Frank Whittle was only the 4th person to successfully demonstrate a jet aircraft engine. The jet engine was invented by Hans von Ohain and Max Hahnn and demonstrated on August 27th 1939 in ROSTOCK GERMANY.

[@unhooked25]

Good old FRANK WHITTLE! We owe lifetimes worth to him for his amazing devotion to such an incredible invention of his. Frank has been deceased since 1996 but his development lives on to the fullest.

[@jdb85]

rip sir Frank , I went to sir Frank whittle primary school in coventry

[@Aspen90]

Same here! Do you remember the jet engine they had in the entrance to the hall?

[@gardoarellano9601]

All hail to sir frank whittle his great works of engineering changed our world of high technology

[@igottagopee4871]

Wow I'm related to him! , it said so at the Smithsonian sir and space museum

[@foffbella3904]

Well his my great great great uncle and the rest of his family with me Robert Whittle penny whittle is my grandma and he is my grandmas uncle BOOM roasted

[@foffbella3904]

And I am from Ireland England and Britain. What’s your mums name