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The race for the jet engine
Inspiration, rejection and war - a personal account of the invention of the jet engine
Using eyewitness recordings from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archive we hear from the pioneers of the jet engine, Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain, about the struggle to develop a revolutionary new engine in the 1930s. An invention which would change the world.
Photo: Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) is pictured here with the Whittle WV engine at the Science Museum in London c 1988 (Getty Images)
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