that were built under the direction of Hayne Constant at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). The designs were advanced for the era, typically featuring...

Exoskeletal engine Jet car Turbine engine failure Turbojet development at the RAE Variable cycle engine "Turbojet Engine". NASA Glenn Research Center. Retrieved...

reversal Turbojet development at the RAE Variable cycle engine Water injection (engine) Note: In Newtonian mechanics kinetic energy is frame dependent. The kinetic...

The Rolls-Royce RB.44 Tay is a British turbojet engine of the 1940s, an enlarged version of the Rolls-Royce Nene designed at the request of Pratt & Whitney...

The Gloster E.28/39, (also referred to as the Gloster Whittle, Gloster Pioneer, or Gloster G.40) was the first British turbojet-engined aircraft first...

125 sq ft (11.6 m2) Airfoil: RAE 102 Gross weight: 4,500 lb (2,041 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Armstrong Siddeley Viper 101 turbojet engine, 1,640 lbf (7.3 kN)...

co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention which was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's...

the Gloster E.28/39 the next year. In July 1940 the RAE signed a contract with Metrovick to build a flight-quality pure-turbojet engine based on the Freda...

Following the relatively successful trials of the TMR, Rolls-Royce decided to proceed with the development of the Rolls-Royce RB108 direct-lift turbojet; five...

turbojets with variable engine intake ramps, and reheat for take-off and acceleration to supersonic speed. Constructed out of aluminium, it was the first...

fighters. At the time, no conventional means for aircraft designers to meet these goals seemed viable because while the new Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets provided...

designed for the more powerful Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines. The aircraft was to be fitted with the most up to date radar and electronic equipment...

aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier. The project resulted in the development of the prototype Miles M.52 turbojet-powered aircraft, which was...

of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine. Griffith's advanced axial-flow turbojet engine designs were integral in the creation...

The Power Jets W.2 was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd. Like the earlier Power Jets W...

The Miles M.52 was a turbojet-powered supersonic research aircraft project designed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s. In October 1943, Miles Aircraft...

with its Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow turbojet engines. Late-war Allied attacks on fuel supplies also reduced the aircraft's readiness for combat and training...

flights at the Royal Aircraft Establishment's Aerodynamics Flight at RAE Bedford, the last of which being performed in 1967. XN714 was transported to the United...

the use of the turbojet engine; he believed that a larger jet engine should match the steady supersonic cruising speed of the aircraft, and that the rocket...

thrust. However, development of the Saturn was cancelled; in its place, the more capable but not immediately available Bristol Orpheus turbojet engine was adopted...

up at R.A.E. Bedford. The two-seat 707C joined the R.A.E. in January 1956; perhaps its most substantial research contribution was to the development of...

E.27/46 by the Air Ministry shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War. To internally accommodate its Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet propulsion,...

centrifugal-flow turbojet engine, 4,770 lbf (21.2 kN) thrust Performance Maximum speed: Mach 0.9 Thrust/weight: 0.3 Avro 707 Related development Handley Page...

480 lb (6,568 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce RN.2 Nene centrifugal-flow turbojet engine, 5,000 lbf (22 kN) thrust Performance Maximum speed: 695.9 mph (1...

conjunction with the RAE at Farnborough.[page needed] In addition, the tailplane was cropped to a shorter span (by removing the rounded tips on the P.1040) and...

published. In it he talks about the needs for high-speed flight and the use of turbojets as the only reasonable solution to the problem of propeller efficiency...

Power, 2002, p. 124, 542–549 Eckardt, Dietrich (2022). "Early Turbojet Developments in the USA and Other Countries". Jet Web. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer...

Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 97-GT-528 : The Development of the Whittle Turbojet by Cyrus B...

emigrated to the United Kingdom to work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough from 1945 to 1949. The Jumo 004B turbojet would have been...

with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wing roots, a pressurised cabin, and large windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet...