Whittle and other Power Jets staff still held the view that they would be the sole designers of jet engines; they would build prototypes and industry would actually produce them. This view was in conflict with that of the engine companies, which in engine design had already achieved competence similar or superior to that of Power Jets. The engine companies stated they would not work with Power Jets if Power Jets were the sole designers.Nahum 2004 p114 The government scientists from RAE who had been moved to Power Jets were against it also and within MAP there was a feeling that Power Jets was publicly financed but not under public administration. From the end of March, Whittle spent six months in hospital recovering from nervous exhaustion; he resigned from Power Jets (R and D) Ltd in January 1946. In July the company was merged with the gas turbine division of the RAE to form the National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE) at Farnborough. Sixteen Power Jets engineers, following Whittle's example, also resigned. Whittle's Rolls-Royce_Nene would be licensed and made in two different countries: in the United States as the Pratt & Whitney J42 jet engine, later incorporated into the Grumman F9F Panther and in the USSR Soviet as the Klimov VK-1 jet engine, later incorporated into the MiG-15; the Panther vs the MiG-15 would meet in air battles during the Korean war.
Whittle and other Power Jets staff still held the view that they would be the sole designers of jet engines; they would build prototypes and industry would actually produce them This view was in conflict with that of the engine companies which in engine design had already achieved competence similar or superior to that of Power Jets The engine companies stated they would not work with Power Jets if Power Jets were the sole designersNahum 2004 p114 The government scientists from RAE who had been moved to Power Jets were against it also and within MAP there was a feeling that Power Jets was publicly financed but not under public administration From the end of March Whittle spent six months in hospital recovering from nervous exhaustion; he resigned from Power Jets (R and D) Ltd in January 1946 In July the company was merged with the gas turbine division of the RAE to form the National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE) at Farnborough Sixteen Power Jets engineers following Whittle's example also resigned Whittle's Rolls-Royce_Nene would be licensed and made in two different countries in the United States as the Pratt & Whitney J42 jet engine later incorporated into the Grumman F9F Panther and in the USSR Soviet as the Klimov VK-1 jet engine later incorporated into the MiG-15; the Panther vs the MiG-15 would meet in air battles during the Korean war