Frank Whittle
Engineer and inventor
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar... Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1907, Coventry, United Kingdom
Died: August 8, 1996 (age 89 years), Columbia, MD
Education: RAF College Cranwell (1923–1928), Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, and more
Movies: Whittle: The Jet Pioneer
Parents: Moses Whittle and Sara Alice Garlick
Spouse: Hazel Hall (m. 1976)
Buried: Cranwell, England