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Full Flaps - the Jet Engine - Interview with Ian Whittle, Son of Frank Whittle
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Jun 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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Hello and Welcome to TLG and to the second stage of our Full Flaps interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank, the man who invented the jet engine. Ian told us so much in part one, you’d hardly believe there’d be more – but there is – and we couldn’t let an opportunity like this pass us by. So here once again is Ian talking to James Cartner and me Rob Curling at his Surrey home, almost 85 years to the day since the first running of Sir Frank Whittle’s revolutionary invention.
Released:
Jun 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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