RR Nene for a game of billiards??
I’m just watching ‘Battle Stations’ on Ch4 about the Mig 15. Some nice flying footage, but they told a story I’d not heard before.
The Mig team were invited to visit RR post war, and stayed with a RR executive. They played billiards and the stake was a Nene engine. They won, and got the engine, which certainly helped the Mig 15 to later out perform the Sabre in Korea.
The way I’d hard it, the Labour government (spit!) of the day GAVE the engine to the US *and* the USSR.
Anyone know the truth about this???
SSD