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Python engine installed in altitude wind tunnel, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, August 25, 1949. Creator: Unknown.

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Python engine installed in altitude wind tunnel, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, August 25, 1949. An engine mechanic checks instrumentation prior to an investigation of engine operating characteristics and thrust control of a large turboprop engine with counter-rotating propellers under high-altitude flight conditions in the 20-foot-diameter test section of the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), (renamed the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field).

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

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HRM21B20_365

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Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,4Mo (318,6Ko) / 13,0cm x 10,4cm / 1536 x 1229 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation people male job man men country science guy occupation research altitude location century turbine engine profession technician mechanic B&W 1940s wind tunnel propeller NASA research and development Forties air Transport United States of America aeronautics black & white black and white B W r&d 20th century propellor American America USA artificer decade photograph united states Unknown National Aeronautics and Space Administration Heritage Space NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration airscrew AERL Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory Glenn Research Center John H. Glenn Research Center NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory Altitude Wind Tunnel