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In 1959, Brandner left Europe for Egypt, where the government was recruiting German World War II scientists for their top-secret aerospace program. His project was codenamed "135", with the duty of designing a jet engine for a fighter already constructed. In 1962, the presence of German scientists in
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Longing to escape communism, he was released from the Soviet Union in 1953, where he returned to
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in 1921, and went on to study in Vienna, earning a degree in engineering in 1925. He began designing diesel engines for locomotives, working at the
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jet fighter being produced by the
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