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Genius who shrank the World

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Article by Robert Hardman, Daily Mail, bemoaning the fact that GB is celebrating the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin, but virtually ignoring the pioneering wiork on jet engines by Sir Frank Whittle:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379807/Frank-Whittle-Jet-engine-inventor-genius-shrank-globe.html


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