Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
Workers working inside an office in Washington DC. Man getting inside a building and walking out. Man and woman working inside an office. People walking in and out of the office. Man opens letters and takes out dollar bills from the envelopes. Woman writes on a paper seated at desk. She speaks over the phone.
Finnish minister Hjalmar Procope at Finnish Legation in Washington DC. Finnish minister Hjalmar Procope at his desk dictates to his secretary. He lights a cigarette and sits on the chair.
Envoy of Finland Hjalmar J. Procopé at Finnish Legation in Washington DC. Finnish minister Hjalmar J. Procopé at his desk in the office. He speaks over the phone. Hjalmar J. Procopé reads the front page of The Evening Star newspaper with headlines “New Smashing Finnish Victory Reported”. He looks at the newspaper and takes out dollar bills and newspaper clippings from envelopes. Hjalmar J. Procopé looks at the newspaper clippings.
Finnish minister at Finnish Legation in Washington DC. Three Finnish officials seated at desk looking at a map. One of them has an open book in front of him. They converse with each other.
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