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Bell XP-59A Airacomet
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Bell XP-59A Airacomet; America's first jet fighter, 1942
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GE obtained the license to build the English "Whittle" jet engine, primarily because they were the main vendor of superchargers (so they had high speed turbine experience. That started GE's long and illustrious career in building jet engines.