Roger that Buster, I think what I will do is start a new thread, say a fortnight before (that's two weeks in English money) as others may treasure the warning order.
Those guys at Cambridge must be well connected as they have put on some real good lectures this year. They have an Air Marshall talking F35 next week. Then Skylon in March. all very topical stuff.
Can someone save me digging out the books. Is the Typhoon in the foreground in the picture? it looks so small in comparison with the 262.
I did read an interesting quote about these engines. I think the design life was 25 hrs due to the limitations of the blade materials. When Winkle flew it he did not know if it was a 1 hr or 24 and a half hour engine (It may have been one of the other German jets. I do like his story on the rocket fuels and the German ground crew.