Movie Monday - March 28 - The Birth of the Whittle Engine

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Movie Monday - March 28 - The Birth of the Whittle Engine By

Jon Ostrower  on March 28, 2011 12:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0) | Later this week I'll be heading south to Florida to visit with Pratt & Whitney and see the PW1524G, the first geared turbofan model intended for the Bombardier CS100 now on the test stand in West Palm Beach. As I did last year leading up to the annual Engines 101 and media brief, I devoted Movie Monday to jet engines. Last year it was Engine Failures 101, this year it's Wonder Jet a 1950 British dramatization of the birth of Frank Whittle's jet engine design. You'll notice that Whittle's early engines (a centrifugal compressor design) don't resemble what we know today as (axial compressor design) high-bypass turbofans, though the elements and fundamentals remain the same. Today's Movie Monday runs just over 19 minutes. Enjoy!
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2 Comments By Glen Towler
on March 31, 2011 1:33 AM | Reply

looks so simple on paper jet engines but of course in practise how different

By Gabe
on April 1, 2011 8:15 AM | Reply

Smaller gas turbine engines, including turbofan engines, do still use centrifugal compressors as part of their design.

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