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Jet Engine Inventor's Son Visits AFRL: Father's Legacy Continues to Thrive
November 17, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, Nov. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news:

By Jim Varhegyi

88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

What happens when you mix a 22-year-old self-taught aeronautical engineer and Royal Air Force pilot, with a slide rule, a solid background in math, and an idea? Well, you get the birth of the jet age.

In 1928 Frank Whittle wrote a thesis entitled "Future Developments in Ai . . .

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