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Author Kershaw, Tim.

Title Jet Pioneers : Gloster and the Birth of the Jet Age / Tim Kershaw.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
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Summary In April 1941 Britain's first jet left the ground at a grass airfield 4 miles from Gloucester Cathedral. It was the start of a revolution in air travel, military and civilian. During the 1940s Britain's first-ever jet aircraft, the world's first jet fighter in squadron service and the first jet to hold the world air-speed record were all designed, built and flown in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. The story of Frank Whittle's invention and dogged development of the jet engine is well known. But the account of how his invention was put into the air has never been fully told. This book tells the story of how the men and women of north Gloucestershire made Whittle's engine fly.
System Details System requirements: Adobe Digital editions.
Note Print version record.
Subject TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General.
Jet planes -- England -- Gloucestershire -- History.
Gloucestershire (England) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kershaw, Tim. Jet pioneers. Stroud : Sutton, 2004. 0750932120 : (OCoLC)ocm55586947
Standard No. 9780752494999
ISBN 9780752494999 (e-pub)
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