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"Shooter"
I would call the jet engine invention a dual person invention. While Frank Whittle got the patent, the first engine was built by von Ohain and he was also the first to have one fly. The Heinkel S-1 was first run at the end of February, 1937. Whittle's engine, the W-1 was first run in April of 1937. Very close in time for those 2. The big difference was the time to actually fly one.
The He-178 first flew on August 27, 1939, almost 2 years before the Gloster E28/39, which first flew on May 15, 1941. It would be more than a year after the Gloster first flew that the US would fly it's first jet, the Bell XP-59 Aircomet on October 2, 1942.
So the British engineer got the patent, but the German engineer had a faster "time to market" to put it in business terms.
The He-178 first flew on August 27, 1939, almost 2 years before the Gloster E28/39, which first flew on May 15, 1941. It would be more than a year after the Gloster first flew that the US would fly it's first jet, the Bell XP-59 Aircomet on October 2, 1942.
So the British engineer got the patent, but the German engineer had a faster "time to market" to put it in business terms.