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	Frank Whittle Summary
		Frank Whittle was born on June 1, 1907, in Coventry, England, the son of a mechanical engineer.
		Sir Frank Whittle was responsible for one of the most important inventions to come out of World War II—a machine that, like the computer, arrived on the scene late and only came to prominence in the postwar years: the jet engine.
		The Meteor was intended to use either the W.2 or the similar Halford H.1 (later named "Goblin") but de Havilland later decided to keep all the Halford's for their own design, the de Havilland Vampire.
	www.bookrags.com /Frank_Whittle (5965 words)

	People \| Rolls-Royce Centenary - A Century Of Innovation
		After the war Halford joined Harry Ricardo in his engine design consultancy where he spent much of the next two years negotiating licences in the United States.
		Until the outbreak of war Halford’s consultancy in London had one side of the office dedicated to de Havilland and the other to D Napier & Son.
		When Halford died in 1955 he had added a turboprop, several rocket engines and the launch of the world’s biggest axial turbojet, the Gyron to the engine range.
	100.rolls-royce.com /people/index.jsp?id=118 (528 words)

	Friends, family tune in to see loved ones via teleconferencing
		Deawn Halford, a lung transplant patient, with husband Frank Halford, waves to friends and relatives in Idaho in a teleconference call from the UW.
		Stranded in a rented duplex in Seattle for the duration of her recovery, Halford, 45, hasn't been home for three months, an unusual circumstance for a woman accustomed to daily visits with family.
		Deawn Halford's friends and relatives teleconference with her from Idaho while she recovers from a double lung transplant at the UW medical center in Seattle.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/258896_hcenter09.html?source=rss (915 words)

	TheWeirdcrap.com - The Judgment
		Frank Halford that on the night in question you were drinkin' in the 'Tar and Feathers' public drinking house in Aysgarth?"
		He walked purposely directly up to Frank and placed his face just a few inches from his and stared directly into his terrified eyes.
		Frank examined the old ropes that had been used to expertly bind his legs and hands to the old wooden chair.
	www.theweirdcrap.com /stories/2006/judgment/01.html (512 words)

	Frank Whittle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Whittle speaking to employees of the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory (Now known as the NASA Glenn Research Center), USA, in 1946
		Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907–9 August 1996) was a Royal Air Force officer was one of the inventors of jet propulsion.
		The Meteor was intended to use either the W.2 or the similar Halford H.1 (later named "Goblin") but de Havilland later decided to keep all the Halfords for their design, the de Havilland Vampire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Whittle (4098 words)

	Obituaries: Frank M. Halford, 83
		GRANGEVILLE: Frank M. Halford, 83, of Grangeville passed away Saturday, November 18, 2006 at the Grangeville Health and Rehabilitation Center.
		Frank was born October 4, 1923 in Grangeville a son of William and Mary T. Mattox Halford.
		He is survived by his children, Lena Webb of Boise, Rose and Bob Younger of Springfield, OR, Helen Halford of Elsmere, Ky, Effie and Make Ayers of Grangeville, Barbara and Joe Swisher of Cottonwood and Frank and Deawn Halford of Lewiston.
	www.blackmerfuneralhome.com /obituaries/2006/11/frank-m-halford-83.html (206 words)

	Ifield, Frank; Halford, Pauline: I Remember Me - The First 25 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Now, at last, Frank tells the story of how he made it - the story of an 'overnight success' that had taken a decade of dedication and determination to achieve.
		Ambition was born on a makeshift stage in an Australian bush village, was pursued through the backwoods of 1950's Australian showbiz and blossomed into success on the stages of the Antipodes and the first flickering screens of Australian TV.
		Narrated in Frank's own individual, easy-flowing way, his irrepressible sense of humour shines through in a story packed with nostalgic glimpses of an English and Australian childhood, hilarious anecdotes, honest disclosures of painful personal tragedies and a generous peppering of star names, from Cliff Richard to the Beatles.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=ISDWV (245 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > News Feature > Seventy-six years ago today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Benoist pitted on lap 35 but was so far ahead by then that he rejoined in the lead while Segrave's troubles got worse and he fell behind Senechal, Halford, Campbell, Eyston and even the delayed Divo, who's Talbot was trailing oil all the way.
		Eyston disappeared with a head gasket failure but although Halford and Campbell enjoyed a fight for third, it seemed that Benoist had the race sewn up.
		The Delage had a basic design problem as the exhaust was located too close to the cockpit and after a few laps the cockpit began to heat up and the drivers began to get uncomfortable.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ftng036.html (1471 words)

	The Early Jet Age (Britain) - NE Aircraft Museum
		Frank Whittle, in 1929, was the first to propose the idea of jet propulsion in the modern sense.
		In January 1941, as the government became more aware of the potential of jet aircraft, De Havilland was asked to produce a fighter and an engine for it.
		Frank Halford developed the H1 engine, which entered production as the Goblin, on the Vampire.
	www.neam.co.uk /JetHistory/britain.html (2528 words)

	De Havilland Aircraft Company
		His longtime friend, the engine designer Frank Halford, modified a French motor and came up with one that was lighter in weight and simpler in design.
		The inventor Frank Whittle constructed an early jet engine prior to the war.
		Fitted with four of Halford's more powerful Ghost jet engines, the Comet entered test flight in 1949 and first carried paying passengers in May 1952.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/DeHavilland/Aero49.htm (1339 words)

	EnginesUK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Designed by Frank Halford after a contract was given to de Havilland to design and make a new jet powered fighter in early 1941(DH 100).
		Designed by Frank Whittle it was a centrifugal type turbojet, with ten small reverse-flow combustion chambers, the first engine the W.1X was tested on the 14/12/1940.
		Unfortunately, Frank Whittle and the Rover management worked at all times at cross purposes, with Rover always believing (wrongly) they had better ideas and did little to cooperate.
	tanks45.tripod.com /Jets45/ListOfEngines/EnginesUK.htm (1302 words)

	Centrifugal or Axial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amongst those in England were Dr A.A.Griffiths, a scientist with a growing reputation in the aviation and academic world after his paper “Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design” was published in 1926.
		When in 1929 Whittle, age 22, first brought his ideas to the attention of his superiors, they were thought of sufficient interest to obtain an expert opinion.
		In late 1944/45 Frank Whittle and his team at now-nationalised Power Jets began the design of a fan engine.
	www.frankwhittle.co.uk /centrifugal_or_axial.htm (1684 words)

	[1.0] Vampire Variants
		The G.40's powerplant was built by Whittle's company Power Jets and was of "centrifugal flow" configuration, meaning that its compressor was based on an impeller like that of a pump, not a series of fans as used in more modern "axial flow" turbojets.
		Initial flight of the first prototype was on 20 September 1943, with Geoffrey de Havilland JR, company chief test pilot and son of the founder, at the controls.
		This machine was powered by a Halford H.1 turbojet with 12.0 kN (1,225 kgp / 2,700 lbf) thrust and was unarmed.
	www.vectorsite.net /avvamp_1.html (5368 words)

	About Douglas Adams
		The moment he thought seriously about writing for the first time is still most clearly in his mind: It was at the age of ten, when he got "ten out of ten" for a composition - reportedly the first and only time Mr.
		Frank Halford has ever given "ten out of ten".
		But apart from that he was considered a bit awkward and "diabolically bad at rugby - the first time I ever played it, I broke my own nose on my knee.
	www.angelfire.com /co/MostlyHarmlessPage/Author.html (1051 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE JET PLANE IS BORN
		Indeed, the fact that the Allies had any sort of well-focused effort at all was largely due to one man, Frank Whittle of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
		Frank joined the RAF in 1923, at age sixteen, and was posted to a training institute to prepare for work as an aircraft mechanic.
		Meanwhile, the British had a new development of their own, a turbojet designed by Frank Halford at the firm of De Havilland.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1993/2/1993_2_44.shtml (5686 words)

	De Havilland - World War II
		Geoffrey de Havilland and Frank Halford were among a select group invited to see the first aircraft to which it was fitted, the Gloster E.28/39, fly at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire.
		Halford was enthusiastic about the new engine and began work on one for the de Havilland Engine Co while Bishop began work on a new aircraft.
		There were problems with these engines, however, and so the Meteor made its first flight on 5 March 1943 powered by two Halford H.1 jet engines.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /london/exhibitions/dehavilland/world_war_ii.cfm (582 words)

	Frank Halford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There he designed the famous de Havilland Gypsy air-cooled inline engines, copying the success of the Cirrus Engine company in the general aviation role.
		While Ricardo worked with Bristol Engines, Halford worked with Napier and Son on their Sabre design which would go on to be one of the most powerful piston aero engines, producing a whopping 3,500 hp (2.6 MW) from only 2200 cubic inches (36 L) in late-war versions.
		Pritchard, ‘Halford, Frank Bernard (1894–1955)’, rev. Robin Higham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Sept 2006
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Halford (416 words)

	de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
		Because of Halford's work modifying an existing French engine, making it lighter and simpler, de Havilland was able to set up an aero engine division.
		The design was simple but effective with the result being a well-behaved aircraft that proved so successful that supplies of the war-surplus engine parts were soon exhausted.
		Halford promptly designed a new engine for the aircraft that produced 40 horsepower more than the Cirrus but was only 14 lb heavier.
	www.nzwarbirds.org.nz /motha.html (2618 words)

	Triumph Motorcycles Timeline: The Classic Years, 1919-1945
		In November, Halford broke the 500cc world hour record at 76.74 mph on a Riccy, along with 50-mile standing start (77.27 mph) and the one-mile British record (87.8 mph).
		Halford breaks the flying mile, 50 mile and one hour record at Brooklands, riding a Riccy.
		Car company Vauxhall Motors hires Maj. Frank Halford to design an in-line four motorcycle, but the project is dropped in 1924.
	www.ianchadwick.com /motorcycles/triumph/time02.html (5267 words)

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		BHP was formed by the well-known engine man Frank Halford, in co-operation with Beardmore.
		The BHP Co was eventually merged into Siddeley as the design flaws in the original BHP engine proved to be beyond the facilities at BHP to sort out.
		Halford, starting out on a long and distinguished career in the aero-engine industry, moved to Siddeley-Deasy (Siddeley) with the assets of BHP.
	www.oldengine.org /members/diesel/Duxford/BHP.htm (111 words)

	DE HAVILLAND MOTH
		To remedy this, de Havilland introduced a more powerful plane, the D.H. 60, nicknamed the Moth, which was powered by a four-cylinder engine derived from a Renault V-8 produced during World War I. Introduced in 1925, the D.H. 60 became so successful that the entire supply of Renault engine parts was soon used up.
		Accordingly, de Havilland and engineer Frank Halford designed a new engine producing more horsepower but weighing only 14 pounds more than the D.H. 60's engine.
		This new engine was known as the Gipsy, and when it was installed in a de Havilland biplane in 1928, the plane was called the Gipsy Moth.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /AERO/DEHAVMOTH.htm (494 words)

	Obituaries
		She is survived by her husband, Walter G. Graybosch; a son, James Graybosch of Biloxi, MS; a granddaughter; and great-grandson.
		A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Dr. Andrew Frank Halford, Sr., 72, at St. Louis Church by Fr.
		Survivors include his wife, Charlotte Halford; four sons, Andrew Halford of Boston, MA, Jack Halford, James Halford of Knoxville, TN; and Michael Halford; two brothers, Dr. Jack Halford of Fayette, TN and Robert Halford; and four grandchildren.
	www.cdom.org /wtc/wtc_archives/wtc081700/wtc_pages/obituaries.html (553 words)

	The Cars Bookstore - Military History > Bargains
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		Subtitled: The Remarkable Career of Frank B. Halford.
		This work chronicles the life and career of Frank Halford spanning his early flying at Brooklands, the work with Ricardo and Airdisco, designing...
	www.carsbookstore.com /Products_625_Page_2.ncm (584 words)

	DeHavilland.Net >DH115 Vampire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Vampire first flew in 1943 as "The Spider Crab" and used the Halford H1 engine developed by Frank Halford who was Chief Engine Designer of De Havilland.
		The Vampire, F1 entered RAF service in 1945 - just too late to see World War 2 hostilities - now using the "Goblin 1" jet engine which was developed by De Havilland from Halford's original design.
		The type underwent rapid development via the F3 and equipped many RAF squadrons at home and abroad.
	www.dehavillandaviation.com /vampire.html (608 words)

	B.Randall's Scrapbook
		Lloyd and Laura Wood were living in the Johnny Taylor house which was close enough to be severely threatened by the fire, and Laura took the children up to Lizzie Coffey's.
		Lloyd has a little hen house out back but they got Frank Halford's team and hauled it out of the way.
		In this operation Willis Swan almost got caught between two buildings but it just knocked his glasses off.
	history.earthsci.carleton.ca /harvey/scrapbook/may1993.htm (725 words)

	de Havilland Goblin
		In 1941, de Havilland was invited to design a fighter and the jet engine to power it.
		The H.1 Goblin ("H" for designer Frank Halford) first flew in the D.H.100 Vampire for which it was designed in 1943.
		The Goblin also powered the prototype XP-80 Shooting Star.
	www.shanaberger.com /engines/goblin.htm (47 words)

	de Havilland DH-115 T.55 Vampire
		The origins of the Vampire date back to 1941 when the de Havilland Company began investigating the possibility of building a turbojet engine along with a fighter aircraft to go with it.
		Consequently, de Havilland's Frank Halford developed the 2,700 lb thrust Goblin 1 engine that ran successfully for the first time in April 1942, work began on an airframe to go around it the following month.
		Built to British Air Ministry specification E6/41, the prototype of the DH100 Spider Crab (LZ548/G) made its first flight from Hatfield airfield, Hertfordshire on September 20, 1943 with Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr at the controls.
	www.nzwarbirds.org.nz /vampire1.html (1530 words)

	Amazon.com: "Harry Ricardo": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet (Revolutions in Science) by Andrew Nahum
		It was developed in conjunction with combustion wizard Harry Ricardo and engineer/racer Frank Halford.
		Following a disappointing debut in 1921, when only one of the Triumph factory team finished the...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Harry-Ricardo (495 words)

	Hobbycraft 1/48 Vampire FB.9 by Scott Van Aken
		They went via Stornoway, Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US where they gave several formation aerobatic displays.
		The first engine was a Halford H1 producing 2,100 lb of thrust, designed by Frank Halford and built by de Havilland and later renamed the Goblin.
		The engine was a centrifugal-flow type, a design soon superceded post-war by the slimmer axial-flow units, and initially gave the aircraft a disappointingly limited range.
	modelingmadness.com /scotts/korean/uk/vamp.htm (1548 words)

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