Direct research links could turn Whittle's proposal into a joint program

Technical questions between naval and RAF researchers passed through both ministries, which could recast them before they reached the people able to answer. Direct contact between research teams reduced that distortion once naval aviation had its own research organization. A similar connection could bring Whittle to Parsons or John Brown, where a company team could assess the wider proposal instead of leaving it to one specialist. An interested company could correct calculation errors and invite the inventor to work as a consultant. Admiralty backing would, in this scenario, draw the Air Ministry into joint funding, with naval researchers leading gas turbines and air researchers leading jets. Shared metallurgy and compressor work could also provide a precedent for earlier radar cooperation.