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Title:

Whittle [videorecording (DVD)] / the jet pioneer / produced by Quanta Limited for the History Channel ; producers, Glyn Jones, Nicholas Jones ; written and directed by Nicholas Jones.

Format:

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher:

Shelter Island,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Whittle, Frank,--Sir,--1907-
Aeronautical engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
Aeronautics--Great Britain--History.
Aeronautics, Military--Great Britain--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
Jet engines--History.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Whittle, Frank, Sir, 1907-
Jones, Glyn.
Jones, Nicholas.
Austin, Dave, narrator.
Stoll, David, 1948- composer.
Ohain, Hans von, 1911-
Quanta Limited.
History Channel (Television network)
Shelter Island (Firm)

Notes:

Narrator, Dave Austin. "His race against time and the Nazis"--Container. Program content: 2007. "NR [i.e., not rated]"--Container.

Contents:

Bonus features: Airside at Gatwick -- A tribute by Ian Whittle : Westminster Abbey -- Interrogating the Nazis / by Eric Brown -- Brockworth : the first flight? -- Centrifugal : the reason why -- So how does a jet engine work?

Summary:

Tells the story of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Includes comments by Whittle himself, his son Ian, veteran test pilot Captain Eric Brown RN and Hans von Ohain, designer of the first German jet engine.

ISBN:

1934708933
9781934708934

OCLC:

(OCoLC)815987104

UPC:

826262008192

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)