CDP Theme Day - Transitions

Transitions in Aviation

Sir Frank Whittle

Inventor of the Turbojet Engine

1907 - 1996

Sir Frank Whittle, a British Pilot, born in Coventry

designed and patented the first turbojet engine in 1930.

Millennium Place, Coventry

This statute of  Sir Frank Whittle was unveiled in Coventry

on what would have been the 100th birthday

of this great inventor from Coventry.

Above the statute is the 'Whittle Arch' -

described as a twin-arch tubular structure.

Below you can see more of the Whittle Arch.

The blue structure is a walkway, called 'The Glass Bridge'.

You can just make out the statute in front of the bus.

There is plenty of construction going on in Coventry too.

More university student accommodation, I am told.

Participating (a day late) in City Daily Photo

Theme Day.  For more 'Transitions' photographs,

please following the link HERE.

That Would Be Sir Frank Whittle....

...beneath the Whittle Arches depicted as 'watching the first test flight of a jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E28/39 on 15th May 1941 at  RAF Cranwell'. 

Sun is out (hooray) and so is everyone else.  I will be back here again with my camera, but in the meantime, remember to 'Beware of Buses'....they pass by here like a Gloster-Whittle E28/39 jet aircraft.  Sir Frank Whittle is the inventor of the jet engine.