I was just about to post the same thing, she actually sounds annoyed that he didn't say in-flight entertainment or something.

She said you invented the jet engine lol

Hans von Ohain invented the jet engine in Germany... Whittle is just the first in the UK.

Same here! Do you remember the jet engine they had in the entrance to the hall?

This interview was recorded by me, when Sir Frank Whittle visited the AeroTec 87 exhibition at the NEC

@@midlandvideobroadcast3767 u r very lucky, so u r meaning that it was late 80s casts!

And they are talking about intercontinental rocket for civilian travel. I wonder what that was about.

@@mreese8764 HOTOL

Ohain did say after the war that but for the indifference of the Air Ministry Sir Frank would have had a jet engined aircraft in flight much sooner. Ohain and Whittle had great respect for eachother.

@@roberthorwat6747 Whittle was not much of an engineer and was years behind the Germans in development of jet engines, Frank Whittle can only be properly credited as the first in the UK and it is not his design that is used today. The jet engines we use today were first developed in Germany..

@@sandervanderkammen9230 "not much of an engineer"... hmmmm interesting theory.

@@roberthorwat6747 *Not a theory lad, proven facts.* *None of Whittles engines were ever successful and he never returned to working in the aerospace industry after being sacked from Power Jets Ltd and discharged from the RAF after being arrested in the M.52 scandal.*

@@sandervanderkammen9230 what book did you get all that from "lad"?

Well his my great great great uncle and the rest of his family with me Robert Whittle penny whittle is my grandma and he is my grandmas uncle BOOM roasted

And I am from Ireland England and Britain. What’s your mums name

I met young Harry Whittle this week and he seems to have it in his blood too

@@backpackerthrulife8497 Frank Whittle was a very unlikely hero and a characature that was fabricated by British propaganda. Whittle who was a boaster and selfish self-promoter was only the fourth person to successfully demonstrate a working jet aircraft engine, he can only be properly credited as the first in the UK. None of Whittles engines were successful, they were too unreliable to meet airworthiness certification and never saw production. Whittle's career was destroyed by the failure of the W.2/500 M.52 engine and his involvement in the Miles M.52 embezzlement scandal. Whittle was arrested and discharged from the RAF amid allegations of extorsion, embezzlement and derliction of duty, he was sacked from Power Jets Ltd the same week as the M.52 program was canceled and he was exiled to a drug rehab in America. Whittle had become addicted to amphetamines and benzodiazapines, and was an admitted alcoholic. Whittle would never work as an aerospace engineer for the remainder of his life. A truly shameful and humiliating chapter in British aviation history.