While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...
In the early 1940s, Lockheed engineers designed what could have been the world’s first operational jet fighter—the L-133 Starjet. With an advanced axial-flow jet engine, swept-wing design, and a speed ...