Sir Frank Whittle 1907 - 1996

occupation:
Aeronautical engineer,
Inventor
Nationality:
British; English
born in:
Coventry, Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

G. B. R. Feilden, ‘Whittle, Sir Frank (1907–1996)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67854] Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67854