[SpaceBar]

All jet aircraft engines have a ‘nazi past’.

[Enlightened1]

Granted and ditto for our space program.

[SkyDancer]

Maybe - the English inventor Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet engine along with a German scientist at the same time but not knowing each other's work.

Jul 29, 2018 · Inventor of the first jet engine. An Englishman and a German both contemporaneously invented jet engines. Sir Frank Whittle is often given credit for the invention of the turbojet engine which made jet airplanes possible. The truth is that he and a German physicist Hans von Ohain both independently invented jet engines in the late 1930’s.

[Rurudyne]

Untrue.

There’s a British lineage too.

And if you want to really go back there was a Frenchman designing and building an early plane that, IIRC, used a piston engine driven low power compressor of some sort that he dumped more fuel into … I want to say in combination with the hot exhaust from the engine. He was not a pilot though so on a day he was running an engine test, and completely unaware was rolling forward and gaining speed, he found himself hurtling towards the walls of Paris … so while he did manage to pull up and fly over the walls he crashed right on the other side.

[T.B. Yoits]

All jet aircraft engines have a ‘nazi past’.

The jet engine is not a Nazi invention. Long before Whittle and Ohain invented their engines, as far back as 1791, Englishman John Barber was granted a patent for a gas turbine. In 1861 Marc Mennons and Nicolas Teleshov were granted a British patent for a gas turbine for a locomotive. In 1899, Charles Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in the US.