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truestory about thejet engune
Yes he got little recognition and the Labor party then in power gave a complete engine to the Russians. I remember seeing, in UK, the first ever jet plane flying and later a Lancaster
which had two of its 4 engines replaced with turbines, to see that scorching across the sky with two feathered props was a signt. A bit later I watched an impressive display set up for the military which included D. Havillands son flying the Swallow in a spiral on a
horizontal axis with a convental monoplane keeping exact alignment flying alomg the axis.
He was some pilot, many though he was the first to break the sound barrier in the
swallow, he sadly died in this aircraft To this day no recogotion is given to Miles
Aviation whose design was given to the yanks and enable them to claim to be the first..
In all fairness I believe the Swiss had the first gas turbine working for power generation,
but I would not like to sweat to that, Whittle's great break through was to develope a
turbine that produced (considerabe) thrust, and Rolls Royce for the alloys for the blades
of the later turbines - Gerald
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