Stirred memories of what was, possibly, an early 'scam'.
I was running Transmitter control at a model aircraft meeting at Abingdon and a chap came up and said he had some interesting information. The meeting was the first 'public' demo of Gerry Jackman's (world's first) model gas turbine, so ,presumably relevant. Anyway, this character said he had a collection of manuscript notes of Whittle's early experiments which he had retrieved from a rubbish bin in Oxford, and could someone advise him as to what best to do with them. From memory, I pointed him to one of the more knowledgeable flyers and heard no more,
Likely authentic documents, or a try-on? Irrelevant at this remove, but I wonder.
