Wind Tunnel Tests For Australia
MLLBOUliNE, April (3. A wirnl tunnel to test spouds up to 18/ M miles ;iu hour, will be built at. part of tlie aeronautical researeli projeet plauned for Austraiia or New Zea land, acc-ordino- to I\Ir. W. (t. A. Pernng, direetor of the Royal aircraft. ' jstablishment at Farnborough, England Wr. Perring said that at 1000 niiies an liour, the external heat to which the urcraft would be subjeeted, would be )etw een 8o and 100 degrees centigrade. fhe. next bairier beyond the speed of sound, which is roughly 750 miles an j lonr at ground level, was "expected to ie encountered wlien the aircraft would ' Je flying in liquid air created by the speed of its own passage.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1948, Page 2
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