Whittle: The Jet Pioneer

Name: Whittle: The Jet Pioneer
Director: Nicholas Jones
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Released: 2010-08-10T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 71 min
Cast: Dave Austin, Hans von Ohain, Sir Frank Whittle

“It was a race against time and the Nazis”

20101h 11m

DocumentaryHistoryWar

Overview

Whittle: The Jet Pioneer reveals the titanic struggle of a young aviator and engineer as the Nazis took Europe into total war. It was a race for air superiority between Germany and the Allies. Ultimately the young inventor became one of the most influential Britons of the 20th century with an invention that changed the face of our planet.