Other 777s in the BA fleet were named after aviation pioneers, for example " Wilbur and Orville Wright " and " Sir Frank Whittle . " The aircraft ( G-ZZZB ) no longer carries Sir Sefton's name, aircraft names having been removed from the BA fleet since the short-lived 1997 Utopia re-branding.
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Its original purpose was to provide a home to Sir Winston's papers, however since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, and those of eminent scientists and engineers including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.
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On 15 May 1941, the first test flight of the Gloster E . 28 / 39 W 4041 / G with a turbo-jet engine, invented by Sir Frank Whittle took off from RAF Cranwell ( earlier taxying trials, in which the E . 28 / 39 briefly became airborne, were carried out at the company's airfield at Brockworth ).
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Citing Carl A . Brown's 1985 " A History of Aviation ", Tim Brady, the Dean of Aviation at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, wrote in 2000 : " the development of the jet is, broadly, the story of three men : Henri Coanda, Sir Frank Whittle, and Pabst von Ohain . . . " In 1990 at the 24th Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, one of the papers presented included this sentence : " It is to Henri Coanda ( 1886 1972 ), a world famous inventor and pioneer of jet flight, that space engineering owes beside one of the first model planes provided with a rocket engine ( 1905 ) the construction and engine experiment of the first jet aircraft, the'Coanda-1910'. " In 2007 in his popular book " Extreme Aircraft ", Ron Miller wrote that the powerplant in the Coand-1910 was one of the " earliest attempts " at a jet engine, but was unsuccessful it was " incapable of actual flight ", unlike the engines designed by Whittle and Ohain.
