User talk:Davidpope1993

Frank Whittle
Wow, major WP:POV-pushing on the Whittle article! That's just not acceptable on Wikipedia, nor is it a view that finds any support from any credible commentary, at the time or since.

I happened to re-read Max Bentele's auto-biography this week and he's yet another one that discredits it, and cites Whittle and Ohain as amicably agreeing post-war that there was no such influence.

In particular, Bentele goes into some detail on why the German turbines had so much sophisticated designs than Whittle's - they had to! Lack of high performance strategic materials forced them into making their turbine blades better by design instead. Apart from the obvious fact that the German designs, both the axials and the Ohain design are so very different from Whittle's layouts.

Interestingly though, he does note that Hirth obtained a copy of Geoffrey Smith's early British gas turbines book (presumably via Switzerland - not clear if it was the 1942 or 1944 edition) and found it useful. I have a 1944 copy of this myself and always found it surprising that so detailed a book was published so openly on the topic before VE day. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)