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Jet Man - The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, the Genius behind the Jet Revolution (Hardcover)
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Jet Man - The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, the Genius behind the Jet Revolution (Hardcover)
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The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius,
inventor of the jet engine and British hero. In 1985 Hans von
Ohain, the scientist who pioneered Nazi Germany's efforts to build
a jet plane, posed the question: 'Would World War II have occured
if the Luftwaffe knew it faced operational British jets instead of
Spitfires?' He immediately answered, 'I, for one, think not.' Frank
Whittle, working-class outsider and self-taught enthusiast, had
worked out the blueprint of a completely new type of engine in
1929, only for his ideas to be blocked by bureaucratic opposition
until the outbreak of war in 1939. The importance of his work was
recognized too late by the government for his revolutionary engine
to play a major part in World War II. After the war Whittle's dream
of civilian jet-powered aircraft became a reality and Britain
enjoyed a golden age of 1950's jet-powered flight. Drawing on
Whittle's extensive private papers, Campbell-Smith tells the story
of a stoic and overlooked British hero, a tantalizing tale of 'what
might have been'.
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