GE #Engineer Speaks About a Top Secret Program that Launched the Jet Age in #America
Exactly 70 years ago, in the summer of 1942, a handful of GE engineers working non-stop for ten months built America’s first jet engine. Their mission was to win the war, but they launched the Jet Age and ended up shrinking the world. “They called us the hush-hush boys,” says Joseph Sorota, who is 93 and one of the last living veterans of the project
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While with GE Semiconductor, in Syracuse, NY, I worked with a machinist that had been involved in the construction of the first jet engine equipped aircraft, at the Bell Aircraft. It probably became the P80.
I remember him describing starting it up, in closed hanger. Everyone ran because they weren’t sure if it was going to blow up, or if it should sound that way.
The airplane was the Bell P-59, America’s first jet plane.
My Father, Angus McEachern, was one of the “Jet Pioneers” who was on the train from Lynn, Massachusetts to what was then Muroc Air Force Base in California with that engine in 1942. He worked on every GE jet engine from 1942 until his retirement in 1967. I went to work for GE in 1972 at the Flight Test Operation in Mojave, Ca and retired in 2003 when the facility moved to Victorville, Ca. I traveled to Hong Kong twice on GE’s 747 flying test bed.
My Dad, Kenneth Batchelder, worked on the Turbine for the first jet engine at the Schenectady, GE plant. At the time they didn’t know what the project was. They were very proud when they later learned what it was for.
Was Frank Burnham a part of this? I remember him talking of accompanying an early jet engine on a train. I knew Frank in 1956,1957. He was my husband’s supervisor.
Hi cousin Bonnie, My Uncle was Angus McEachern as his daughter stated above – he was one of the “Jet Pioneers” I for one am very proud of him & his daughter for all they have contributed to aviation! Thank you to my Uncle & the others from his days! My cousin & all the others who have worked in the past & present to keep us moving ahead!
Thank you Helen!
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I have NDT course all method IAW american STS.
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