page_title: Timeline of jet power
section_title: 1941
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of jet power / 1941
caption_attribution_description: English: Gloster E.28/39 (W4041), Farnborough, Sqn Ldr J Moloney, c. 1941
context_page_description: Although the most common type, the gas turbine powered jet engine, was certainly a 20th-century invention, many of the needed advances in theory and technology leading to this invention were made well before this time.
  The jet engine was clearly an idea whose time had come. Frank Whittle submitted his first patent in 1930. By the late 1930s there were six teams chasing development, three in Germany, two in the UK and one in Hungary. By 1942 they had been joined by another half dozen British companies, three more in the United States based on British technology, and early efforts in the Soviet Union and Japan based on British and German designs respectively. For some time after the World War II, British designs dominated, but by the 1950s there were many competitors, particularly in the US with its huge arms-buying programme.
context_section_description: February: The Air Ministry places an order for 12 Gloster Meteor.
  February: NACA starts testing their "Propulsive duct engine", a ramjet, unaware of earlier similar efforts. Since ramjets need to be moving in order to work, NACA engineers take the simple step of mounting it at the end of a long arm and spinning it.
  April: The He 280 flies under its own power for first time, powered by two Heinkel HeS 8 (-001) engines. The HeS 8's continue to have reliability issues.
  May: The Gloster E.28/39 flies for the first time.  Over the next few weeks, the top speed soon passes any existing propeller aircraft.
  Müller's Heinkel HeS 30 (-006) axial-flow engine runs for first time.
  General Electric is awarded a USAAF contract to develop a turboprop engine, leading to the TG-100 / TG-31 / XT-31 series, and later the J35.
  Work on the Jendrassik Cs-1 ends. Intended to power a twin-engine heavy fighter, the factory is selected to produce Daimler-Benz DB 605 engines under license for the Messerschmitt Me 210 instead.
  October: A Power Jets W.2B is sent to General Electric to start production in the US. Sanford Alexander Moss is lured out of retirement to help on the project.
  The Switzerland turbine-powered train enters testing.
caption: The E.28/39 flies for the first time in 1941.
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