Jet man : the making and breaking of Frank Whittle, the genius behind the jet revolution
Campbell-Smith, Duncan2020
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Frank Whittle - working-class outsider and self-taught enthusiast - had worked out the blueprint for 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 recognised 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 an overlooked British hero.
Main title:
Jet man : the making and breaking of Frank Whittle, the genius behind the jet revolution / Duncan Campbell-Smith.
Author:
Campbell-Smith, Duncan, author
Imprint:
London : Apollo, 2020.
Collation:
448 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781788544696 (hbk)
Dewey class:
629.1092
LC class:
TL540
Local class:
B WHI
Language:
English
BRN:
2747162
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