The Spitfire Story ft. Spitfire Mk.IX

[dexter]

The Spitfire is one of those aircraft from World War 2 that remains omnipotent in popular memory. Let's have a closer look at this aircraft and what made it tick. Featuring MK356 a genuine D-Day Veteran.

 

[waz]

The Spitfire is one of those aircraft from World War 2 that remains omnipotent in popular memory. Let's have a closer look at this aircraft and what made it tick. Featuring MK356 a genuine D-Day Veteran.

Britain has a fantastic history building state of the art and effective planes, one of the few nations on the planet which can make advanced military turbofans and commercial engines. The future looks great with Tempest and others

 

[zulu]

Still looking for its scale model in Pakistan Spitfire and F 86 always in my wish list also this

 

[Path-Finder]

Britain has a fantastic history building state of the art and effective planes, one of the few nations on the planet which can make advanced military turbofans and commercial engines. The future looks great with Tempest and others

psst.. there is a secret French connection!

 

[waz]

psst.. there is a secret French connection!

Sir Frank Whittle was British, the father of the modern jet engine.

Sure there's a French connection i.e. they gained valuable knowhow and expertise from the UK.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/eb035291

 

[Path-Finder]

Sir Frank Whittle was British, the father of the modern jet engine.

Sure there's a French connection i.e. they gained valuable knowhow and expertise from the UK.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/eb035291

No, I was talking about something else.

 

[Saleem R Chandna]

Still looking for its scale model in Pakistan Spitfire and F 86 always in my wish list also this

Both Spitfire & F86 scale model are available in PAF Museum Souvenir Shop at Faisal Base, Karachi.

 

[zulu]

Thanx man scale ka idea? chk this yeh bhi kahin nazar aaye kindly inform me apny pasmc waly tu bus commercial airliners mina lagy pary hain

Both Spitfire & F86 scale model are available in PAF Museum Souvenir Shop at Faisal Base, Karachi.

 

[nahtanbob]

Spitfire versus Messerschmit Bf 109 was battle for the ages

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Sir Frank Whittle was British, the father of the modern jet engine.

Sure there's a French connection i.e. they gained valuable knowhow and expertise from the UK.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/eb035291

The honour is shared with Hans von Ohain.

 

[waz]

The honour is shared with Hans von Ohain.

No he doesn't and it's a pretty well known fact that Frank Whittle was already working on his design in the late 1920s and openly patented the design in 1930, a full seven years before Ohain's design ran.

Ohain's design was the first to see realisation with a prototype.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

No he doesn't and it's a pretty well known fact that Frank Whittle was already working on his design in the late 1920s and openly patented the design in 1930, a full seven years before Ohain's design ran.

Ohain's design was the first to see realisation with a prototype.

The development of the Jet Engine can be traced back over 2000 years.
Hans von Ohain made significant contributions to the internal workings of the modern jet engine.
When Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain met after the war and discussed their research they agreed that it made sense to call them co-inventors of the jet engine.
That is good enough for me.