KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain’s Frank Whittle. Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930, received that recognition but did not perform a flight test until 1941.

Detailed explanation-2: -HANS JOACHIM PABST VON OHAIN, inventor of the first turbojet aircraft engine that powered an aircraft, died on March 13, 1998.

Detailed explanation-3: -The core of Ohain’s first jet engine, the Heinkel HeS 1, which he described as his “hydrogen test engine” was run “in March or early April” according to Ohain (although Ernst Heinkel’s diaries record it as September 1937).

Detailed explanation-4: -Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 1911 – 13 March 1998) was a German engineer, and designer of the first operational jet engine. His first design ran in March 1937, and it was one of his engines that powered the first all-jet aircraft, the prototype of the Heinkel He 178 in late August 1939.