First Jet Powered Aircraft

Airliners have revolutionised international transport, opening every nook and cranny of the globe not only to the wealthy but also to the simple people of many states. As George Cayley and John Stringfellow from England, Lawrence Hargrave from Australia, Otto Lilienthal from Germany and others had carried out flying tests in the years before Wilbur and Orville Wright's 1903 Wright aircraft, there were also many engineers in the business of jet engine technology, before Frank Whittle from England and Hans von Ohain from Germany achieved almost simultaneously inventor success in the 1930' and 40'.

In 1687 Isaac Newton first declared the principle of the movement of both the lipile and the spear, which laid the foundation for today's driving theories. Until 1872 the first real gasturbine motor had been developed by the pilot Franz Stolze. Sanford A. Moss, an engineering graduate of the General Electric Co. in the United States, almost invented an invention in 1918 with his turbocharger, which used steam from the engines waste to power a jet which in turn powered a radial supercharger to charge the jet.

In 1920, the trial was taken a further stage when Alan A. Griffith of England invented a jet blade and not a passage system jet technology for turbines in England. However, the jet propulsion system was uncommon in that it was implemented at about the same period separately in two soon-to-be-released warring countries.

Frank Whittle, an Royal Air Force official in Great Britain, created the gasturbine propulsion system to drive the first Gloster E.28/39 jet in Britain, which made its maiden voyage on 15 May 1941. Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain worked on the problems of natural-gas engines in Germany without any understanding of Whittle's work.

The aeronautical industry expert Ernst Heinkel was supported by Von Ohain in his search for an aircraft production plant to supplement his aircraft business. Erich Warsitz succeeded with the Heinkel He 178 in making the first turbine flying in historic times with the BMW 3D-powerplant. Among the remarkable US experiments in jet aircraft technologies are Nathan Price of Lockheed Corporation, who engineered and manufactured the L-1000, and Vladimir Pavlecki and Art Phelan of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.

Britain's first failures during the Second World War aroused interest in the development of the power plant, while Germany's success prompted its leadership to suspend all technological development in the field of weapons that could not be implemented within a year. Nevertheless, Junkers Motorenwerke GmbH had commissioned Anselm Franz to design a jet propulsion system from 1940.

Squadron brought its jet engines into operation and propelled the first fully functional jet aircraft in company histories, the German Messerschmitt Me 262. Great Britain and the United States also launched jet pilots, with the British Gloster Meteor making its maiden voyage on 5 March 1943. Meanwhile, the first US jetliner, the Bell P-59A, did not have the power needed for battle, so the first US jet aircraft ready for action was the Lockheed P-80A, which came too late to fight in the Second World War.

Soviet Union also carried out engine experimentation, as well as the installing of ram jets, but these were on a small scale. The Soviet Union also carried out engine tests.