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It is nice to try to re-write history. Japan was killing Chinese people (and people from many other countries) at a staggering rate, and with unspeakable methods, often identical to the ones of Nazi Germany, and sometimes even worse, if ever possible. By the end of the war, Japan had murdered, according to Japanese scholars (the few that have the courage to speak out, as there is still a national policy of sweeping denial), up to 15,000,000 innocent people, and I stress innocent people! That included children, women, elderly, or anyone that wasn't Japanese. High estimates put that number at over 23,000,000. that is 23 million innocent people. Japan regarded them as "human logs", mere pieces of wood. Anyone helping them fight back a brutal, fanatical, psychotic regime can only be regarded as a hero. It is unbelievable that in 2024 there are still people defending Nazi Germany, or Imperial Japan, both countries responsible for some of the most unspeakable crimes against humanity. the attempts to try to pin their lack of any humanity on the Flying Tigers, or the Doolittle Raid, is simply pathetic, and shameful. Japan was simply aiming, just like Nazi Germany, to expand at the expense of innocent people, and their methods were unforgivable. There are plenty of conspiratorial places where you can share your views with a fringe of alternate reality believers, which includes, of course, people that believe the holocaust never existed, or that the earth is flat. You should go there, rather than commenting here.

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This was filmed in the 80s, and it is part of a long interview that has never been released before. we are working on releasing it soon.

I beg to differ, and for a variety of reasons: Let's start with the fact that Von Ohain recognized Whittle as the inventor of the turbojet in his own book. It seems that you ignore some very basic facts, such as Whittle presenting his idea to the Air Ministry in 1929, 6 years before Von Ohain started working on his project. Despite being ignored, Whittle never gave up, until a friend, in 1935, managed to find a small amount of money (£200,000 in today's money), that allowed the British genius to create the first working turbojet in April 1937. Obviously he had no aircraft to test his invention, as he already made a miracle with the funding he had. Between 1929 and 1935 something VERY interesting happened: Britain had not secreted Whittle's work, who also had not enough money to renew his patent (a few pounds). It so happens that Germany took his work, copied it. and distributed it across German Universities. By his own admission, Von Ohain had access to that work (obviously), and his own assistant further confirmed the level of access (full access). Of course Von Ohain, on top of having access to someone else's detailed work, had also the full financial backing, and support of an aircraft manufacturer, Mr. Heinkel. Thanks to Heinkel's diaries, we also have a precise account of when Von Ohain's first worked: September 1937, months after Whittle, and with unfit fuel. They finally managed to make it work with proper fuel, only in March 1938, almost a year after Whittle, and with all the resources they needed. Literally David vs. Goliath. It is also interesting to note that Von Ohain/Heikel's first flight in the He 178 (1939), was powered by none other than a centrifugal turbojet, therefore Whittle's invention detailed in his 1929 paper, and distributed across Germany in the early 30s. Copying and testing with full resources proved to be quite easy, I guess. The best you can do is blame the British government for ignoring Whittle. One last note, in his thesis, which is available online, Whittle discusses the (unknown back then) benefits of altitude for turbojets, and theorizes pressurization. Why is that important? Because on the other side Von Ohain could not grasp that fundamental concept at all, and if anything, he got it wrong. He was clueless to those key factors. What happened in the 30s, beside the grave mistake of ignoring Whittle, is also important. Britain had also been working on axial turbojets all along, but they did not make the stupid mistake of wasting resources in trying to deploy an unproven technology. As a matter of fact, the person single handedly responsible for ignoring Whittle in 1929 was Griffith, the author of a seminal paper on axial compressors in 1926 (when Von Ohain was a teenager more busy playing, rather than thinking about turbojets). The conflict of interests is just obvious. Griffith ridiculed and dismissed Whittle, making him waste six precious years, and even then forcing him to work on his invention with only a few pounds. After the war, almost everyone ignored those flawed German engines (their issues went beyond materials, which is often used as an excuse for their failure). Only the French pursued development of the German turbojets, after gathering 120 Nazi engineers, but it took them years, and radical modifications to make them into. proper engine. In the meantime the British continued their pre-war development, and made excellent engines, both axial, and centrifugal. I suggest you also study Metrovick. The first turbojet to power an aircraft on U.S. soil in 1942, was indeed Whittle's, after he was secretly shipped, together with his engine to General Electric in 1941. Had that happened in 1929, with American resources, the allies would have been a decade ahead of the Germans, but that wasn't to be. He was a genius that was born in the wrong place, but had the perfect idea at the perfect time, a decade before the beginning of the war, and 15 years before the Me 262, powered by the utterly flawed German turbojet was deployed out of pure desperation, one that despite BMW, Junkers, and Heinel pouring resources into it for many years, was still operationally completely useless. On the other hand, the Me 262 airframe was excellent, if that is any consolation. Germany had exceptional wind tunnels, way ahead of everyone else. Hopefully this will stimulate you to further explore the invention of the turbojet, one that is very complex, and has no straight answer, other than the inventor: Sir Frank Whittle.

And so many other administrations, both on the left and the right, if you use the same metrics