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"®i©ardo" wrote in message
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Graham Sheldon wrote:





I seem to remember also after WW2 the British were well advanced with jet
engine technology and virtually handed all the plans, etc over for the
Russians to have a look at. And then the world was shocked when the
Mig-15 showed up in Korea with a Russian copy of the British jet engine.
What is it with the poms? And then there was Duncan Sands (or however
he spells it) and his infamous white paper which destroyed the British
aero industry almost overnight...
Not *all* the plans. The Russians were provided with an example of the
Rolls Royce Nene and Derwent jet engines.

Britain handed over far, far more to America in that line.

And Britain's reward from the U$$A was the same
as the reward from the USSR!




America's first jet fighter, the XP-59A Airocomet, only got off the ground
thanks to the engine and technology provided by Britain.