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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250146-09
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950
Country: USA
Location: dayton,Ohio,patterson aFb,wright
TC Begins: 05:20:48
TC Ends: 05:27:03
Duration: 00:06:15
NOTE: May combine w/ other continuous short rolls for total of up to 10 minutes at per reel rate. Wind Tunnel Testing, 1950 R2 of 2 CU pan of high speed horizontal ten-foot high velocity wind tunnel. Interior, man working on one of two 20,000 horse power alternating current induction motors that operate blower. Men watching two fans turning in opposite directions. 05:21:28 MS & CU of a semi-span wing model protruding into the airflow from side of vertical wind tunnel. 05:21:43 Schematic drawings of testing of model of missile supported by a stinger-type support. 05:22:08 Man working in laboratory filming test. 05:22:29 MS engineer w/ film of the model. Man sitting at control panel of wind tunnel, CU of control panel. 05:23:08 Refrigeration system used in tunnel. Ext. of four insulated 100,000-gallon brine tanks. 05:23:41 Bell X-l in flight. Contrail of smoke from an aircraft. 05:23:54 Sign: Super Sonic Test Aircraft Laboratory Engineering Division Building No. 26. 05:24:04 MS man looking into wind tunnel. MCU of glass plate mounted on side of test section of tunnel. Man standing beside test section of tunnel. MCU of jig stage axial-flow compressor. MCU of 5000 horse power alternating current motor connected to the compressor. Man operating optical system. 05:24:59 CU of lighted candle in top of frame; in bottom frame, distortions viewed by the optical machine. Picture of turbine profile at top frame; at bottom frame; a distortion of the airflow through the turbine lattice as seen through optical machine. 05:25:42 Personnel reviewing data w/ manual calculators & adding machines. 05:26:04 Man at drafting table. Editors, engineers & scientists around table reviewing reports. Montage of reports thrown on desk w/ an XB-47, an XB-51 and a formation of B-36's superimposed. The End. USA Military Aviation Testing; 1950; Air Foil Investigation; NOTE: May combine w/ other continuous short rolls for total of up to 10 minutes at per reel rate.