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General Electric I-40 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
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A mechanic works on a General Electric I-40 turbojet at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The military selected General Electric’s West Lynn facility in 1941 to secretly replicate the centrifugal turbojet engine designed by British engineer Frank Whittle. General Electric’s first attempt, the I-A, was fraught with problems. The design was improved somewhat with the subsequent I-16 engine.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineGeneral Electric I-40 Engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. NASA/GRC, 1946-08-23. Public domain. ID: GRC-1946-C-15675.
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