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As I understand it some of the early German jet engineers had previous experience with turbochargers. Which makes sense as turbochargers and turbojets have some similiarity. It also suggests not all engineers were hired straight from college.unable, under the Reich's labor priority system, to hire engineers from the already hard pressed piston engine community
Anyone know how many Frank Whittle had?
I believe that's trueFrom memory, there were only three technical staff at Power Jets
That's a big plane for a singleFAOW - Famous Aircraft of the World - No.24 - Army Japanese Fighters has several pictures of the Ki-94II prototype production crew rushing to finish the aircraft...all eight of them. Eight guys, total, that's it, as in 8, assigned to build a new - desperately needed - high-performance prototype aircraft from scratch during a war you are losing...badly. (6 of the 8 pictured below.)
Why start a war, if you have no intention of actually trying to win it... Yeesh.
Moss
FAOW - Famous Aircraft of the World - No.24 - Army Japanese Fighters has several pictures of the Ki-94II prototype production crew rushing to finish the aircraft...all eight of them. Eight guys, total, that's it, as in 8, assigned to build a new - desperately needed - high-performance prototype aircraft from scratch during a war you are losing...badly. (6 of the 8 pictured below.)
Why start a war, if you have no intention of actually trying to win it... Yeesh.
Moss
I think you forget, or take for granted, that the US had a huge population, many more skilled technicians than other countries, was not being bomber around the clock, and was not being subjected to a crippling naval blockade, as Japan was at that point in the war
And the Japanese were deadly serious about winning, but went well beyond the six months timescale that Yamamoto prophetically gave them for success...
The Ju 88-program constituted one of the largest German armament projects. The firms
which took part in the original plan of 1938 employed more than half of the workforce
engaged in German airframe production.
Ju 88-program, which was established by Göring in mid-1938 and was
aimed at exploiting economies of scale and raising the technological standards of aircraft
production,