Saturday, March 24, 2012

America's First Jet Flight, October 1942



First Jet Flight


Comments:

hey, cool video =) what was the name of the song when it showed the first flight?
kennywitham 1 month ago

Great history, including the big band jazz score. Thanks for posting.
HowardPaulblasingame 3 months ago 2

Who Patented the jet engine, and who read the patent?
akula971 6 months ago

Amazing as this is to look back on, I am more amazed by the Larry Bell insight.
cazzielacroix 7 months ago

Romania first jet engine flight: 1910

here:

youtube.com/watch?v=MDaUbsWNXv­I
DePuica 8 months ago

@DePuica There is a difference between a jet engine and a ducted fan. Camproni tried the same idea later and it also failed. While a jet engine may be very loosely defined as anything that produces a reaction or jet of air, a ducted fan does the same and is not considered a jet engine. In reality the common use of the term jet engine describes a gas turbine as is in use today and since Whittle/Ohain invented them. Anything else is not a comparision worth making.
nakedleader 6 months ago

German Pabst von Oheim built the first working turbine jet engine. His engine ran before Frank Whittle's engine.

Coanda's thermojet was powered by a piston engine that added fuel to the thrust of an impeller and gained a little boost .

The first jet engine aircraft to fly was the Heinkel 178, in 1939, later followed by the twin jet engined Heinkel 280 in march 1941

In may 1941 the first allied jet Gloster E.28/39 Flew.

The Germans introduced the world first production jet fighter the Me262
Grommo 10 months ago

@Grommo Whittle had a running engine well before Ohain but due to government opposition and indifference he was prevented from flying it earlier. Von Ohain on the other hand had teh enormous resurces of Heinkel behind him which made all the difference. Still they both independently demontrated jet engine technology. And no Romania did not have a gas turbine engine in 1910...
nakedleader 7 months ago

@nakedleader

No, Whittle did not have a running engine "well before" Ohain.

Whittle did not run a turbine until April 1937. Ohain had sucessfully run a gas turbine engine burning hydrogen as fuel in February 1937, generating 250 pounds thrust at 10,000rpm.

Call me silly but I'm pretty sure February comes before April.
Grommo 7 months ago
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nakedleader 6 months ago

@Grommo You are quite correct. My apologies. I incorrectly remembered the date of Ohain's first engine run. My information shows however that his engine was not proceeded with beyond the initial testing and flight of the 178 and Junkers and BMW took over with somewhat fragile axial engines. Whittle's engines developed by Rolls-Royce grew into a whole family of turbojets and turboprops until more effeicient axial engines reached maturity.
nakedleader 6 months ago

@nakedleader

No problem. sorry for the patronising tone.

I have tons of books and visual reference on aviation history and a whole book exclusively devoted to luftwaffe jet development as well as others on the aliies technology and my heroes like Barnes Wallis et al.
Grommo 6 months ago

The. Germans. invented. The. Jet
telorinodelhoyoo 11 months ago

@telorinodelhoyoo So? Israel invented the cell phone and US invented the PC and have been to the moon and back. What's your point?
vexviper 10 months ago
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tecdessus 10 months ago

A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust by jet propulsion and in accordance with Newton's laws of motion. This broad definition of jet engines includes turbojets, turbofans, rockets, ramjets, pulse jets and pump-jets.

Coanda's aircraft was not a turbojet as it did not utilize turbines, but a rotary compressor. Nonetheless, it was just as much a jet as a jet ski, which qualifies as a reaction jet propulsion system by anyone's definition.
Digitalzen 1 year ago

@Digitalzen

"Coanda's aircraft was not a turbojet as it did not utilize turbines, but a rotary compressor. Nonetheless, it was just as much a jet as a jet ski, which qualifies as a reaction jet propulsion system by anyone's definition."

Yes. true . I'd offer that it was more similar to a sort of afterburner for a piston engine driving a ducted fan.

I doubt any increase in thrust from the burner made the engine run any faster the way a turbine engine does of course.

Grommo 6 months ago

The Coanda, at best a quasi-jet, crashed on takeoff, honest persons will discover. The Heinkel 178 was the 1st jet to fly. The engines in the XP-59 were copies of a British design. Lockheed had proposed an axial-flow turbojet and a canard planform aircraft for it in 1939, but the Air Corps wasn't interested.
whizbang47 1 year ago

@whizbang47

Doesn't matter if it crashed or not, it still was airborn and worked. The principle of the propulsion was the same.

Early cars were slow, impractical, noisy, unreliable and nothing more than toys for the really rich. Most people at the time scoffed at them and thought they were never going to replace a good horse. Many of them looked like motorized carriages, but they were still cars.

Hughes H-4 Hercules really didn't "fly" either. Still was a pioneering work.
McLarenMercedes 9 months ago

Idiots, The first jet engine plane was made in 1910 and was called "Coanda 1910" that was made by a Romanian named Henri Coanda.
iRobii 1 year ago

Henri Coanda ..u must see his plane and you will realize that was the fisrt jet plane ..
razva81 1 year ago

only about 30 years to late so clearly not the first 
antiscreen 1 year ago

yanks stole british design for tale of the plane claimed it for themselve s typical yanks thinking there the first at everything ,,,,how did that moon landing go again hahahahha lies just coz they were shit scared that the russians beat you in to space loosers
antiscreen 1 year ago

Actually the first jet was made by the Germans during WWII
Bmxer00002003 1 year ago

@Bmxer00002003 the first jet was british dude.
seanbturner 1 year ago

@seanbturner

They were making the engine but didn't make it fly.

Thus making the Germans the first to have a jet.
Bmxer00002003 1 year ago

@seanbturner

It was the Heinkel He...look it up. Got a video of it on here in a dogfight and scarring American bombers cause they never seen a jet.
Bmxer00002003 1 year ago

@Bmxer00002003 - The first Jet to fly was the Heinkel HE178 which flew 3 days before WWII started - it was a private venture and not initially taken seriously by German High Command. The English Gloster Whittle which was commissioned by the Royal Air Force and was built to prove the jet engine designed and built by Sir Frank Whittle was the first fully funded turbojet to fly. It Flew in late 1941 but was deprioritized in favour of prop powered planes that could be build in much greater numbers.
tomburley 1 year ago

first jet flight was in the 16th of december 1910...though it ended with a crash...google henri coanda
radulicah 1 year ago

@radulicah It was not powered by a jet engine - it was a rocket plane - huge difference
tomburley 1 year ago

@tomburley no it was not a rocket plane. it was a jet aircraft. it used suction in the front part of the engine and airflow out the rear....rocket planes don't use suction as far as i know
radulicah 1 year ago

@radulicah OK so "rocket" was a poor description. But using a piston engine to power a compresser does not make a Jet engine. Neither Coanda's engine nor his aircraft worked.

A turbo jet required both the compression of air and the injection of combustable fuel to be ignited to generate the thrust.....Coanda was just full of compressed air!!

The metalogy needed to build turbine blades was developed by Frank Whittle - this was the key to the jet engine reliably operating at high temp.
tomburley 1 year ago

@tomburley im not familiar with aircraft typer of propulsion but i didnt say coanda's aircraft was a turbojet. yes it did crash, coanda never anticipating the flames that would pop out the front. then engine injected fuel in the airstream and....whatever...there were no officials when the flight happened. anyway just search wikipedia for coanda 1910. they also call it a jet aircraft. peace
radulicah 1 year ago

I cant beleive it, the first true real time data logging system was in 1942?!. I though it was just recent they came out with it, like for 0bd2 on cars. lol amazing
cobra96svt570 2 years ago

nice video!
NMAN900 3 years ago

Wonderful, I am building a scale flying model of this plane with a real turbine !!!

:-)
jeanfi33 3 years ago

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