Aircraft engine: Difference between revisions

* 1914: [[Auguste Rateau]] suggests using exhaust-powered compressor – a [[turbocharger]] – to improve high-altitude performance;<ref name=e/> not accepted after the tests<ref>{{cite book|last=Guttman|first=Jon|title=SPAD XIII vs. Fokker D VII: Western Front 1918|year=2009|publisher=Osprey|location=Oxford|isbn= 978-1-84603-432-9|pages=24–25|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8TBE5nGmxbEC&pg=PA25|edition=1st}}</ref>

* 1917-18: The [[Idflieg]]-numbered R.30/16 example of the [[German Empire|Imperial German]] ''[[Luftstreitkräfte]]'s'' [[Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI]] heavy bomber becomes the earliest known supercharger-equipped aircraft to fly, with a [[Mercedes D.II]] straight-six engine in the central fuselage driving a Brown-Boveri mechanical supercharger for the R.30/16's four [[Mercedes D.IVa]] engines.

* 1926: [[Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar]] IV (S), the first series-produced supercharged engine for aircraft use;<ref name=a>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=John D |title=The airplane: A history of its technology.|year=2002|publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|location=Reston, VA, USA |isbn= 978-1-56347-525-2|pages= 252–53|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FrvrkXYDCL8C&pg=PA253}}</ref><ref group="nb">The world's first series-produced cars with superchargers came earlier than aircraft. These were [[Mercedes (car)|Mercedes]] 6/25/40&nbsp;hp and Mercedes 10/40/65&nbsp;hp, both models introduced in 1921 and used Roots superchargers. {{cite book|title= The new encyclopedia of motorcars 1885 to the present|year= 1982|publisher= Dutton|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-525-93254-3|pages= [https://archive.org/details/newencyclopediao0000unse_v2r4/page/415 415]|edition= 3rd|editor= G.N. Georgano|editor-link= G.N. Georgano|url= https://archive.org/details/newencyclopediao0000unse_v2r4/page/415}}</ref> two-row radial with a gear-driven [[centrifugal supercharger]].

* 1930: [[Frank Whittle]] submitted his first patent for a [[turbojet engine]].