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FASTER-THAN-SOUND TESTS Machinery found in a secret German experimental site will be used in the Government’s new £20,000,000 National Aeronautical Establishment at Bedford to power the wind tunnels in which aircraft models will be tested under faster-than-sound conditions. This equipment forms part of huge new plant capable of producing 200,000 horse-power—the total electrical power intake of a city the size of Manchester. Sir Ben Lockspeiser, DirectorGeneral of Aeronautical Research for the Ministry of Supply, speaking of the plant, said: “The German experimental site was wonderfully camouflaged in wooded country near Brunswick. “The equipment we found was being used by the Germans in tests for supersonic flight, and was scheduled for destruction, but was too valuable to lose, so we removed it.” In a 3ft. square tunnel the German equipment will produce an atmospheric resistance equal to a flying speed of 1500 m.p.h.—twice the speed of sound. Work is to begin on the construction of this and an Bft. square wind tunnel almost immediately. A still larger supersonic wind tunnel, with a total power of about 120,000 h.p., is also to be built.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 59, 6 December 1946, Page 2
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