“If you had been given the money you would have been six years ahead of us,” von Ohain told Whittle when they met years later ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwable was the world's first operational jet aircraft and was powered by an engine designed by Hans von Ohain in 1936.

The Jet Engine. Jet engines would both change warfare and transportation for the decades to come. For the uninitiated, Hans von Ohain of Germany was the first operational designer of the jet ...

By this stage, two leading German aerospace engineers (Herbert Wagner at Junkers and Hans von Ohain at Heinkel) had begun developing their own jet turbine engine. While for many years, it was ...

Whittle’s patents were appropriated by the British government during the war, and von Ohain quietly began a new career in 1947—as a U.S. Air Force propulsion scientist.

Over 350 years after Newton’s invention, ... He was beaten to the skies by German designer Hans Pabst von Ohain, whose design was used in the first jet engine-powered aircraft in 1939.

Over 350 years after Newton’s invention, ... He was beaten to the skies by German designer Hans Pabst von Ohain, whose design was used in the first jet engine-powered aircraft in 1939.

One of the most notable events that took place on April 10 was the launch of the world’s first practical jet engine in 1939 by German engineer Hans von Ohain.

One of the principal proponents of the singularity ‘concept’ is the brilliant inventor and futurist Ray ... the gas turbine designed by Frank Whittle and Hans Pabst von Ohain in the ...

(Such cases of simultaneous but independent invention are fairly common—Leibniz and Newton for the calculus, and Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle for the jet engine, as two examples.) ...

His invention was a stamping mill. Power was generated by a steam-powered turbine. ... Germans Hans von Ohain and Max Hahn patented a jet propulsion engine of their own in 1936.