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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
The U.S. War Department and Army Air Corps had commissioned GE to rebuild and commercialize the British jet engine, known as the Whittle engine after its designer, Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle. Now Sorota had been drafted into the effort.