JET ENGINE EXPERT
GROUP-CAPTAIN WATT
RETURNING TO NEW ZEALANI FM HOLIDAY
(N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.)
V U LONDON, November 4. ..To leave by. air on Tuesday for Australia and New Zealand at the invitation of the respective Governments . is Group-captain G. E. Watt, A.F.C., formerly of Auckland, who was one of; the “ back room boys ” behind the development of jet and gas turbine engines. Group-captain; Watt will stay for three weeks in Australia and is expected to arrive in New Zealand early in December. Deputy director otf turbine engines, at the Ministry .of Aircraft Production, chairman of/, the high temperature materials panel, and formerly chairman of the Gas Turbine Collaboration Committee, Group captain Watt was responsible for the jet engines of the Meteors which established world speed records at Heme Bay and Littlenampton. V ) High tributes were paid to him re-, cently when-he retired from the chairmanship of the Gas Turbine Collaboration Committee and was succeeded by Dr Roxbee Cox. After discussions with Government officials he intends to have a holiday in New Zealand.
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6
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173JET ENGINE EXPERT Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6
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