Jet Engine

                 A jet aeroplane engine was invented by Frank Whittle (1907), an officer in Royal Air Force. In which the means of propulsion was provided by a stream of gas being forced out backwards at great speed. In May 1941 his forced out backwards at great speed. In May 1941 his new engine was fitted into a specially built aircraft which made a successful flight. By the end of the Second World War, the Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter aircraft, was being produced.