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Despite starting later, German jet pioneer pabst von ohain was able to put a jet aircraft into the air nearly 2 years before jet inventor whittle. The primary reason for this is that one of ohain's friends from his student days had become prof Ernst heinkel's right hand man, and got heinkel interested in investing in jet technology. My question is, what would have happened to British jet research if, say, one of whittle's Cranwell alumni had become a prominent designer/ engineer etc for rolls Royce, deHavilland, Bristol etc? Would the OTL E.28/39 (maybe ATL E.28/37?) flown in 1939? Would have earlier and accelerated British devlopment led to a mid-war (not late-) jet fighter? Could it have been the single engined "tea kettle"? Or perhaps the meteor or vampire? What would have been the German response?
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