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HERITAGE - FAMOUS PEOPLE
Sir Frank Whittle
Jet
Engine Pioneer
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[14 MAY 01] LOCAL MUSEUM PAYS TRIBUTE
TO WHITTLE
A
museum in Coventry is paying tribute to one of the city's
finest sons this week to mark one of the great developments in
aviation history. MORE
[22 FEB 01] FRANK WHITTLE TO BE
HONOURED BY UNIVERSITY
Coventry-born jet
engine pioneer Sir Frank Whittle is to be honoured by Coventry
University by having an engineering building named after
him. MORE
[18 SEP 00] CELEBRATE
RUGBY HISTORY WITH RUPERT & FRANK
Rupert Brooke
will form a centrepiece of a celebration of Rugby’s past and
present, which is being held in the town at the end of this
month. MORE
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