Online Catalogue last updated 12th of January 2011
In April, 1937, Englishman Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. The enthusiasm of American Air Force General "Hap" Arnold took the next stage of development to the U.S.A. Within six months Whittle's invention was powering more American jets than British.
This is the story of a genius throttled by British government bureaucracy and gagged for decades by secrecy. The story is now told in full. Its revelations provide a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the wartime government and military establishment, attitudes that led to one of the greatest inventions of all time being available freely to those who were to become Britain's main aircraft manufacturing competitors
Code No. 008525, ISBN 185310860X