The fastest 10 years in History" covering the last ten decades since the nations first jet engine was completed at the General Electric Company's Lynn, Mass. Plant also found the company's engine engaged in development of an aircraft nuclear power plant for the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Manager of the company's Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project, headquartered at the Lockland Ohio jet center, is D.R. Shoults, (left) shown here with C.W. LaPierre, general manager of the Aircraft Gas Turbine Division. The Company has responsibility for developing a nuclear power plant for a plane to be built by the consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., San Diego, Calif. The engine in the background is a model of one of the company's current production jets, the J-47-GE-17, with afterburner, which powers the North American F-86D interceptor.

General Electric Company1952-03-18