America's First Jet Flight, October 1942

[peckerwood57]

Proof of concept, but not proof of practicality.

[EZhotshot511]

fantastic piece of history! Anyone know what that "Great American" epic music is that starts around 2:30?

[Zoomlens]

To everyone who posted twisted-knicker comments about Whittle, Heinkel, Coanda, et al: SO WHAT? The title of this video clearly says "AMERICA'S" first jet, not "WORLD'S" first. No one claimed Bell was first.

[angelofwaranddeath]

and the same the at the end i might add.for the ufo sighting being hauled by an oversized truck in the last weeks news.its a cover up for something they do not want to tell the people.

[angelofwaranddeath]

Bullshit.the germans were the first,however....germany had me-262's available but only in small quantity's.so do not put first on america when history books say germany was first.plus:+ evrything we have was stolen from the germans so who made the best techs you dam right the fucking germans ,the jerry's.

[maldelus]

A very nice bit of historical revelation.

[bogsidebunny]

Wow,

The XP-59A flew for the first time almost 2-months AFTER I was born!

[kennywitham]

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

[gold1927]

@kennywitham THE MUSIC WAS .......GLENN MILLER...THE AMERICAN PATROL

[HowardPaulblasingame]

Great history, including the big band jazz score. Thanks for posting.

[gold1927]

@HowardPaulblasingame GLENN MILLER'S - AMERICAN PATROL

[akula971]

Who Patented the jet engine, and who read the patent?

[cazzielacroix]

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

[DePuica]

Romania first jet engine flight: 1910

here:

youtube.com/watch?v=MDaUbsWNXv­I

[nakedleader]

@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.

[Grommo]

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

[nakedleader]

@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...

[Grommo]

@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.

[nakedleader]

@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.

[Grommo]

@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.

[telorinodelhoyoo]

The. Germans. invented. The. Jet

[vexviper]

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

[Digitalzen]

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.

[Grommo]

@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.

[whizbang47]

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.

[McLarenMercedes]

@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.

[iRobii]

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

[razva81]

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

[antiscreen]

only about 30 years to late so clearly not the first

[antiscreen]

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

[Bmxer00002003]

Actually the first jet was made by the Germans during WWII

[seanbturner]

@Bmxer00002003 the first jet was british dude.

[Bmxer00002003]

@seanbturner

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

Thus making the Germans the first to have a jet.

[Bmxer00002003]

@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.

[tomburley]

@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.

[radulicah]

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

[tomburley]

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

[radulicah]

@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

[tomburley]

@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.

[radulicah]

@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

[cobra96svt570]

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

[NMAN900]

nice video!

[jeanfi33]

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

:-)