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2012

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Whittle [videorecording] : the jet pioneer / produced by Quanta Limited for the History Channel ; Producers, Glyn Jones, Nicholas Jones ; writer, director, Nicholas Jones.
Publisher, Date:	[Corston, Wiltshire] : Quanta : Shelter Island, c2012.
Description:	1 videodisc (ca. 71 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	Tells the story of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Includes comments by Whittle himself, his son Ian, veteran test pilot Captain Eric Brown RN and Hans von Ohain, designer of the first German jet engine.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
Subjects:	Whittle, Frank, 1907-1996. Aeronautical engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography. Documentary films.
Other Author:	Whittle, Frank, 1907-1996. Jones, Glyn, 1931-2014 Jones, Nicholas, 1946- Austin, Dave. Quanta Limited. Shelter Island (Firm) History Channel (Television network)
Other Title:	Jet pioneer.
Notes:	"His race against time and the Nazis"--Container. Originally produced: 2007. Bonus features: Airside at Gatwick -- A tribute by Ian Whittle - Westminster Abbey -- Interrogating the Nazis / by Eric Brown -- Brockworth - the first flight? -- Centrifugal - the reason why -- So how does a jet engine work? Director of photography, Gordon Hickey ; editor, Andrew Heathcote. Narrated by Dave Austin. DVD, region 0, NTSC, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.
ISBN:	9781934708934 1934708933
Publisher Number:	SHL-DV081
Other Number:	815987104
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	337015
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD 629.13 Whittle
Medium:	[videorecording]

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