She chose the 92-year-old Oscar-winner and British theater legend to fill the vacancy left by the death in August of Sir Frank Whittle, the British jet engine pioneer.
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Because of lack of accommodation at Halton, the school was originally located at RAF Cranwell in 1920 where Sir Frank Whittle ( Jet Engine Designer ) received his early aero engine training as an Aircraft Apprentice.
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The museum includes the " Sir Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre " ( named after the local aviation pioneer and inventor of the jet engine ), where many exhibits are on display in a large hangar.
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Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, whose revolutionary concept encountered resistance from the British government for more than a decade before finally transforming the 20th century, died Thursday in his home in Columbia, Md . He was 89.
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Williams'campaign to retain his seat at the 1955 general election was helped by Sir Frank Whittle, who had attempted to convert Williams to socialism while at Cranwell but was forcefully opposed to nationalisation after his treatment by Labour ministers in the 1940s.
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He was 90; Sir Frank Whittle, the British engineer who first patented the idea of a jet engine but lost the race to put it in the air to a competitor in Nazi Germany, dies in Columbia, Maryland, of lung cancer.
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At Cambridge Inglis'students included Sir Frank Whittle ( developer of the jet engine ), James N . Goodier ( mechanical engineer and academic ), Sir Morien Morgan ( called the " Father of Concorde " ) and Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt ( Conservative peer ).
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Commissioned portrait heads include Laurence Olivier ( she also modeled the huge head used for his appearance in Time " at the Dominion Theater ), Donald Sinden, Paul Eddington, Richard Briers, Jimmy Edwards, Ted Moult, Bobby Charlton, Lord Litchfield and Sir Frank Whittle.
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After the First World War, Henlow was home to four aircraft squadrons; No . 19 Squadron RAF, No . 23 Squadron RAF, No . 43 Squadron RAF and No . 80 Squadron RAF . Between 1932 and 1933, Sir Frank Whittle was a student at the RAF technical College on the base.
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Glover was awarded the 2007 Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2008'for his outstanding contributions to the design and construction of major multi-disciplinary projects, including tall buildings, energy projects and large transportation and infrastructure projects around the world '.
