home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ Aminet 7 / Aminet 7 - August 1995.iso / Aminet / pix / vehic / gl_e2839.readme < prev    next >
Text File  |  1995-07-04  |  396b  |  10 lines
  1. Short: Airplane                    885x 635
  2.  
  3. gl_e2839.jpg is a picture of the Gloster E-2839, an early research
  4. aircraft from World War II, designed to accomodate Frank Whittle's jet
  5. engine. It first flew in May 1941, being the first Allied jet to fly.
  6. It was years behind its contemporary Heinkel He-280, very similar to the
  7. Messerschmitt Me-262.
  8.  
  9. Mario Martinez (em440166@sunserv.cem.itesm.mx)
  10.