The course of World War II would have been very different without Rolls-Royce’s immortal engine. The British Overseas Airways Corporation flight from Stockholm, Sweden, landed at an airfield in Leuchars, northern Scotland, one of several hundred round trips the airline made between the two cities. But this was no ordinary flight. The year was 1943, …
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