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What Every Daughter Should Know, Part 4
In 1946 the Soviets bought fifty-five Rolls-Royce centrifugal compressor-type turbojets—twenty-five Nenes and thirty Derwents. These Rolls-Royce engines, the most advanced in the world for the time, were well suited to Soviet production methods and introduced the Soviets to the use of a centrifugal turbojet. Up to 1947 Russian jets were all of the axial-flow type based on German designs.
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