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