How airplane engines were tested in a British factory during World War I
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How airplane engines were tested in a British factory during World War I
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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A School of Correction for Airplane Motors
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AlRELANES are absolutely de-
pendent on their engines. When
an engine stops, down comes the air
plane. So when an aviator
starts on a long-distance
flight over water, or over
country too broken to per-
mit of a safe landing, he
is making an extremely
hazardous bet against fate:
he wagers his life on the
efficiency of his engine.
Such flights require, not
only unusual physical
courage, but a supreme
confidence in the flawless-
ness of the material and
the perfection of the work-
manship of a complicated
pieceof machinery.
Nothing could better il-
lustrate these truths than
the almost foolhardy aban-
don with which the British
aviator Hawker intrusted
his life to a single motor when he
attempted the transatlantic flight.
The accompanying picture shows
the “school of correction” for airplane
engines at one of the manufacturing
plants in Great Britain during the war.
In the severe tests, often
extending over a period
of days, if conducted in-
doors, the continuous roar
of the engines and the
overpowering stench irom
the exhausts would have
been unendurable. The
placing of a number of en-
gines side by side during
the trial offered the advan-
tage of comparison between
the working of the indi-
vidual engines, and per-
mitted a careful study and
verification of the results
of the tests. The results
of the examinations in this
“school of correction” have
since proved of inestimable
value to the development
of the airplane industry
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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66
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 5, 1919
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