Frank Whittle
Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?
I owe much to two things: the first class engineering training I received in the Royal Air Force and two years at what is now the Officers' School of Engineering and two years taking the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University.
I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.
Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.