when were jets invented

Jets were invented in the 1930s, with the first successful jet-powered airplane flying in 1939.

Key dates in jet invention

• The first practical turbojet engines were designed in the early 1930s by Frank Whittle in the UK and Hans von Ohain in Germany.

• The world’s first true jet airplane, the Heinkel He 178, made its first flight on 27 August 1939 in Germany, marking the moment jets moved from theory to reality.

• Soon after, other early jets such as the Italian Caproni Campini N.1 (which flew in 1940) and later wartime German and British jets helped launch what is often called the Jet Age in the 1940s.

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