| Like everything else around us, the jet planes have had | | | | aircraft around the time of the World War-II, while the |
| a humble beginning too. The very first jet planes every | | | | only that could get faster was The Messerschmitt Me |
| flown experimentally, its future uncertain and its uses | | | | 163. |
| unknown. The first ever jet plane ever made was | | | | In the Year 1944, mass production of the jet aircraft |
| actually in appropriately named because it wasn't really | | | | had started, which was about the same time The |
| a jet plane, but was, a certain move to wards an | | | | British had developed their advanced Gloster Meteor, |
| unbelievable history which can be as exhilarating the | | | | which was heavily used to defend itself during the war |
| speed these jets fly at. | | | | and was a proud member of the squadron being |
| The first jet engine was put to use and the principles | | | | prepared for the war. |
| of the same were actually seen in action when the | | | | The Modern jets however, fly in Mach, each mach |
| Coanda 1910, named after its inventor Henri Coanda | | | | amounts to about 75 to 80% of the speed of the |
| and also flown by him it is worth a note that the engine | | | | sound. That is incredibly fast and powerful. So |
| of this aircraft was piston type, unlike that of the | | | | powerful and fast that the pilots who mount these |
| modern jet engine which uses a turbine to run its | | | | beasts have to take special training and get used to |
| compressor. | | | | experiencing extreme G-Forces while in flight The |
| Nevertheless, the true turbine driven engine was | | | | fastest jet plane ever made is the now |
| equipped on the jet plane designed by Heinkel He 178 | | | | non-operational, SR-1 Black Bird. |
| (Germany). The Gloster E.28/39 was flown by the | | | | Somewhere in between the primary jet plane model |
| British to announce their arrival on the flying circuit, soon | | | | and the super fast jetliners present today, the need for |
| to be followed by the Americans using their newly | | | | the private business and leisure-jets was found. The |
| developed Bell XP-59, which had incorporated the | | | | commercialism of the jets has taken on to another |
| Whittle Engine, developed by the General Electric and | | | | league entirely. The numerous uses of these smaller |
| was flown on September 12, 1942. | | | | jets has made them so useful that they are today, |
| However, from purely an operational point of view, | | | | seen as necessities rather than a luxury. |
| The Messerschmitt Me 262, was the fastest flying jet | | | | |