Crash in "Torture Tower" Tests Plane Landing Gear
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Landing gears constructed for super-dreadnaughts of the air, such as the Boeing B19, are tested in a tower 35 feet high built at the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company. Fitted to the tester on a special carriage loaded with pig lead, the landing gear is raised to a predetermined height and dropped. It is all over in two-tenths of a second, but within that time special instruments act quickly to record the performance of the gear. With this type of apparatus a test which formerly required two hours can be completed in about four minutes.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Crash in "Torture Tower" Tests Plane Landing Gear
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Crash in "Torture Tower" Tests Plane Landing Gear
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-05
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 75, n. 5, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 727
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
