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GE had just six months to redesign the engine, and the team worked nonstop, guided by Whittle’s blueprints and a handful of British engineers. There were 15 people on Sorota’s shift. His job was to…
The project was so secret that team members had to pick up jackhammers, knock down walls and modify the workshop by themselves. Problems quickly popped up after they unpacked the engine from its box…
Some of the Hush-Hush Boys with the I-A engine, the first American jet engine. It generated 1,300 pounds of thrusts. The GE90-115B, the world's largest and most powerful jet engine, can produce 127,…
The Jackhammer And The Metric System
The government selected GE for the project because of its knowledge of the high-temperature metals needed to withstand the heat inside the engine, and its expertise in building turbines for power…
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…
The man told Sorota to follow another stranger to a small building with a tall brick smokestack at the back of Lynn River’s industrial lot. “They told me that this was where I was going to work,”…
After a few months on the job, Sorota got called into the main office. “There was a man I never met who asked me what I did on the way home, did I have a girlfriend, did I have a drink at a bar,” he…
Joseph Sorota in 1942 in Dorchester. Image credit: The Sorota Family