KaiserMuffin - I've got to admit that was a surprise, based on your earlier comments I'd have thought you'd want Power Jets (along with everything else) nationalised.
Nathan Madien - It's true I was waiting for the top of the page, but that shouldn't diminish the might of your achievement.
RAFspeak - The advantage of the history of the British jet programme is that it's almost impossible for it to go worse than OTL, almost any change you care to mention would have been an improvement!
KiMaSa - While the OTL Labour Party may have been stuffed with idiots the TUC was the very model of hard-line anti-communism so the jets are safe even if Labour do get into power. The traitors of Bristol South East (Cripps then Benn) will not be allowed to stuff everything up this time.
trekaddict - Such beautiful music.
RAFspeak - It appears you have fallen into my cunningly laid trap. Excellent - the next update should come as a great surprise!
Le Jones - In all fairness some of Whittle's frustrations were entirely self-induced, he never even approached any of the big engine makers for fear he would lose control of 'his' idea.
Nothing wrong with that of course but building an engineering firm from scratch required a completely different skill set from the one Whittle had. Management was not his forte and his choice of financial backers was not particularly wise, for instance OTL the bankers O T Falk dropped out after failing to deliver promised finance.
DonnieBaseball - I had always thought that, however it turns out Rover didn't actually do that bad a job. Adrian Lombard was the chief Rover man on the job and ended up transferring to Rolls Royce when they took over eventually becoming their Chief Engine Designer.
Mind you I've always found the choice of Rover sadly ironic. As mentioned Whittle avoided the major engine makers as he feared they'd steal his work, so his demands (along with war time pressures) meant he ended up with Rover as the industrial partner. Rover then promptly tried to steal his work, setting up a rival factory and getting Lombard to redesign Whittle's engine into something reliable
without telling Whittle or the Ministry they were doing it!
Nathan Madien - Saving the world, it's what I do best of all.
Duritz - As it happens there was a Conqueror tank fitted with a turbine in the 1950s, however it didn't go well. Then again Conqueror as a whole didn't go too well so that's hardly surprising.
Zhuge Liang - The saddest part is America didn't steal anything, they were given it all neatly wrapped up with a bow on top.
A mistake that has to rank well up there on the 'List of Churchill's biggest mistakes' and given how long that list is that's quite an achievement!
C&D - Indeed as Rover showed the natural home for a gas turbine is in the JET1 car of the future!