The Arctic Globe Overview, Frank Whittle Illustration, JimQ's 2024 book content

This google blog software has problems in presentation for the fonts do not STAY the way you type or adjust them.....so, sorry about the variation below, which I have found impossible to correct.

This is https://jim-quinn7.blogspot.com/     NATO, ITER, etc

          https://jim-quinn4.blogspot.com/     for Tornado bits

          https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/    World Stories

AAIB discussion - select top right  2025(1) 

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/archive/six-technologies-that-helped-win-the-second-world-war

If Frank Whittle had been supported by aircraft manufacturers, the jet engine would have been available sooner. As it was, without such support (why did the RAF not go to them?), Frank had to study Engineering at university AND pass, before anybody would help. Thus 12Aprl1937 was the first Whittle jet engine run. The Lancaster, Halifax, Blenheim, Wellington were so slow that 55,000 aircrew lost their lives in WW2. 

The lesson from September 1940 was that fast fighters could easily pick a slow bomber and shoot it down - so you needed faster bombers A (as Frank wanted) !! 

      But no, the idiot MP, Winston Churchill, and team (over ruling expert pilot Frank Whittle) decided to go for a one off demo aircraft, the E28/39, and then start again with the Meteor (Messerschmidt did not delay with a demo - straight to a fighter which did the demo bit in its initial flying) instead of a Canberra for 1943. The so late 1949 Canberra first flight (note especially,

       that if Frank had been supported before his degree, that Canberra could have been 1939 or so!!!)..... see the Luftwaffe's bomber design (not initially used as such) June 1943 first flight : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234  

Patentees in Britain have long been expected by the Government to also manufacture and test their own designs - such a crazy idea that Britain's Official's have still not even recognised, of Frank Whittle's problems. Patents need to be searched by Business to invest, not expect the solo Design Engineer like me (software and logic), to learn how to make and test (you need a big building to test a jet engine) - who can afford the machine tools and the factory, let alone the IPR that a company has, to help think, calculate and launch a project?  

The new Labour Government wants more SME to be launched, but they have so little IPR, that they start way behind the big company with lots of IPR knowledge, and that costs - and sales so delayed too. We need Patentees to be supported by big Company, for the Law is a hugely difficult thing for an Engineer or Scientist to understand - a big company can protect the intrapreneur from all that employment law, business law, taxation law, marketing and sales drives .......and just allow the clever ones to concentrate on their clever "make it work" thinking.

                   Jim                 30sept2024

1Oct2024:  Just discovered in my local small cafe; VAT is now being charged on many items and has been for a few years, growing in extent over that time. Wow, not made public by Government, just known by cronies..... 

- the cafe manager is overwhelmed I was told, by all the paperwork needed now.

My new book “Tornado New Horizons” ISBN 979-8-32824-379-7 published in 2024 recently:

What are we fighting for?  I was told "our World" in the 1970's, but I now know we have to do better than that, not take sides, but learn from others real experiences, and think, to construct the best for all of us.

                                                     Jim  

1) Further to Chapter 1, Hypersonic missiles has become all the current NATO scary rage! Design of such was aerothermodynamic completed in the early 1960's by "my" Bristol Siddeley APRG, and it was shown that supersonic combustion (SCRAMJET) would be a benefit to higher thrust, for the potentially huge normal shock loss in the annulus would be eliminated! - but only if a flame could be stabilised without bigger pressure losses in the flame-holder combustion process. 

My 1964/5 BSc supersonic aerodynamics "step loss" project collaboration with Rod Clifford continued here, because his was the Practical discipline, and yes, combustion was him! See book "British Secret Projects". Supersonic combustion is extremely difficult - on Tornado, reheat combustion in the tailpipe starts at an inlet flow airspeed of (only!) about Mach 0.3 (imagine a candle in a 300 mph wind! ....and if at Mach 4 in the combustion duct? wow!!). Hypersonics was dropped in 1966 as far too expensive for Civil Airliners, and "Combat Engines" was formed from APRG Personnel, which eventually became the Turbo Union RB199 for Panavia's Tornado. 

Thus, you can see that I have always worked at the Requirements end of our Bristol engines, but also software made it far easier to understand how the RB199 engine worked, transient behaviours in 1971 too (never before done by calculation on any other engine at all!). The RB199 Vulcan so confirmed in 1973, and then Tornado in 1974, as I expected overall, with practical innovation of hardware tweaks on those initial flight engines, to eradicate a couple of operating problems.....all solved for Flight.

And thus also my annoyance at HS2 Ltd pursuing the Wrong Requirement......high speed was not the Industry requirement, which was for capacity not hugely expensive speed.

2) Further to my book page 188 (fusion power), the plasma dynamics are only sensor observed externally, so the knowledge of the flow inside the "plasma tube" is poor. Imagine air flow along a duct, the walls cause a boundary layer and it is well known that there is higher airspeed in the centre than near the edges (an airspeed profile). What is happening inside a tokamak magnet controlled high temperature plasma? I think we need to seed the plasma with "sparkly" grains, so that visual measurements can be made of the flow speed distribution across the plasma tube insides, for the temperature will melt a metal pressure or speed sensor! From speed can come pressure profiles....(PV = RT in aerodynamics). Then we will know what control mechanism is better/necessary, for currently we only know the outside surface characteristics of the tube, and not the bulk of it. We have to try!

https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/4067?utm_campaign=whatsnew_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=09%20Sep%202024&utm_content=featured

                       Jim          10sept2024

Is democracy any good ? Would NATO Ever Persuade China to adopt democracy....

 This is    https://jim-quinn7.blogspot.com  including

https://jim-quinn7.blogspot.com/2026/02/sanctions-rfi-and-genetics.html

See also https://jim-quinn5.blogspot.com   BSEL and RR

      and   https://jim-quinn4.blogspot.com   JimQ and Rally

      and   https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/    World Stories

See https://jim-quinn.blogspot.com/2025/12/empathy-courtesy-of-i-paper.html           for HOW TO TRUST OTHERS, CAREFULLY.

Look right to see names of individual articles.... click to read.

14feb2026

Democracy in Europe is run by politicians who have NO understanding of Business, Engineering, Function, Organisation, Human Genetics, Behaviour, or Other Cultures.....

USA has the advantage of being RUN BY ONE person, with Constraints from Senate and House. Thus decisions are made fairly quickly with the Pentagon? (like Mr Putin consulting his Engineers), without the LONG DRAWN OUT discussions of Feelings (not Tech nor Fact nor Logic) held in UK by (no qualification) "decision makers", called MP and lord!!), and ......

    the many nation EU, with..... 

A Council of Bosses,
A Parliament of MEP, and
A Commission which seems to Dictate to Everybody, by poorly qualified people, like politicians in the UK.....

JimQ has thus become Appalled:     

Dear Mr USA President                                27th June 2023 B

I forgot to say that I had also come to the conclusion about RAND Corporation hype, when I asked myself the question "how do I know what is happening in China?" for the media there do not tell about any problems with their Nation State, for it is censored. So, go on, how do we know what is happening in China? Personal stories by visitors - who are in some way restrained from finding out anyway? Seems tenuous to me, and thus I asked what evidence do we really have - and I found NONE. Your satellites will not know, unless they can peer into Xi Jinping's voiced hierarchy? - and their local Government!

Jim

Dear Mr President,                                     27th June 2023 A

Democracy LIES about Satellite Images - you cannot see barbed wire on satellite images, and a prison is just a building indistinguishable from any other on a satellite image. A large prison camp is merely a satellite image of a large village/small town. Democracy is Lying about what it sees - it is so called Intelligence hype and is so very WRONG. This happened in Iraq when the Intelligence Dept of Democracy said we had to go into and attack Saddam Hussein big time, for he had weapons of mass destruction - a BIG LIE, and more recently by the RAND corporation about the content of satellite images over China's Xinjiang province - lies and hype. I am very concerned that we are attacking China through Iraqi type hype!! And that is giving DEMOCRACY a bad name, not only in China but elsewhere - possibly in Africa and certainly the Far East, where many Nations are joining with China on building a big moon base. We, democracy, are losing the PR war, for we hype too often! And NATO allies must think about how we are going to WORK with China, not hound it for what I am beginning to see are FAKE messages from our own Intelligence Community! Please challenge them, with STEM qualified older experienced people. Regards, from Jim, Democracy Champion.

I am asking questions about evidence - we have to think more about FAKE NEWS, and thus/how to challenge ALL news for FACTS, not hype.

Democracy

The belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of Government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves.

Humanitarian: concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare. It seems to me that this is important no matter what type of Nation we have.

This is a note about the negative aspects of our democracy, not a negative against the whole thing, but it is so wide ranging that I think it affects everything democracy does, triggered by my thought about how Xi Jinping might see us, and whether he would want to be a democracy - in time! Or ever?

I conclude he would not, but we might help ourselves by collaborating with China on many things, like we did on Tornado with Deutschland and Italia. Chinese people will land on the Moon for a short day or two or three before 2030, so they virtually equal our technology, and their STEM qualified people already outnumber us in NATO.

THE UK

I am concerned about our reputation in China. What do we have that Xi Jinping admires?  I find that we are very badly wanting. 

We barrack him about Uigres, forgetting that we slave traded for many years thinking that black people were not human. The British Empire even tried IQ tests on African people which were based upon our military and engineering knowledge of design, with symbol matching and so on. The Africans failed it (because they had not seen such symbols or english before), so were considered not human and were treated like vermin, gathered together in dark caverns in rolling sail-ships across the Atlantic, with the most horrible piles of dung and smell all around them. No wonder so many died on the voyage, but did Britain care – in its democracy? No, it invested even more heavily in the evil trade. Humanitarian? Not at all. Christian? Not at all.

So, consider how best to persuade Xi's people to accept we are OK people. What happened to rid ourselves of the slave trade - what humanitarian values did we adopt and why? It was not DICTATED, so there must have been many voices against it, persuading others in Power. Who were the, now important, people who voiced their concern about the trade? - and how do we treat black people now? And the HORRIBLE statues of slave traders so loved by UK Government that they make it a criminal offence to damage the ...... poo.

OH OH OH DEAR - so, go on, persuade Xi's people that we are as good as his people....... HOW?

Jim