JET PROPULSION
NEW DEVELOPMENT BY THE BRITISH
LONDON, December 20
Great Britain new has a jet aircraft engine; ■which; can; operate an,airliner for the length of. the north Atlantic crossing.
A correspondent says that a previous stumbling block with the jet engines was that their high fuel consumption limited their range. The first move to rectify this was the development of several jet engines which drive ordinary propellers. Three of Britain's new engines are of this type. The power developed in the jet turbine is used
to drive an ordinary propeller. The other new engines are straight jet without propellers, similar to those of the record-breaking Meteor. The, development of the jet and jet airscrew engine has outstripped the development of air frames, particularly air frames pressurised to fly at 40,000 feet, at which a straight jet could manage an Atlantic crossing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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