A workable 1928 route to funding Frank Whittle

A. A. Griffith's unfavorable assessment is the first obstacle, while Whittle's Fleet Air Arm connections offer another route to the Admiralty. Keeping Griffith in the scenario matters because the later debate between his axial-flow ideas and Whittle's approach helped refine British jet engineering. Roger Backhouse and Reginald Henderson would likely value a propulsion technology that promised wartime and treaty advantages. Admiralty sponsorship would probably also draw the Air Ministry into a joint program rather than allow a naval monopoly over an RAF officer's invention.