BRITISH PRODUCT

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23347, 2 November 1945, Page 2

BRITISH PRODUCT

Powerful Jet Engine LONDON, October 30. Britain has a new jet engine even more powerful than the Derwent fitted to the Meteors preparing to attack the world speed record, says the aviation writer of the “Daily Mail.” It is the Rolls Royce “Nene.” Cabinet Ministers, representatives of the Dominions, Allies and neutrals yesterday inspected it at the Farnborough aircraft exhibition, which is the biggest ever held in Britain. Nene develops a thrust of 50001 b which is 10001 b more than the Derwent. A similarly designed engine in America’s much publicised “shooting star” gave the plane a performance superior to that obtained with the American-built Turboject with which it is normally propelled. Nene was designed and built in five and a-half months.

Three other warplanes, until yesterday on the secret list, also appeared in the exhibition. They are the Vickers Windsor, a four-engined bomber capable of carrying 12.0001 b bombs 800 miles; the Bristol Brigand, a twin-engined torpedo bomber; and the Martin Baker, a single-seater fighter with a Griffon engine.