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Description: | Samples of photography generated by the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough from the First World War to the Post 1945 period. Includes prints recording the results of investigations into accidents involving military aircraft (First and Second World War). Also two boxes of glass negatives of Schlieren photographs generated in the course of Farnborough's research and development work. The negatives record two windtunnel experiments. The large plates were produced during an experiment on the weight-saving Griffith aerofoil in 1945 (an experimental Meteor jet equipped with this aerofoil flew at Farnborough before research was abandoned on cost grounds). The smaller plates were produced during an experiment by the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) into aerofoils with supersonic capability 1956 - 1965 (this research was incorporated in the design of the Concorde supersonic airliner as well as early supersonic military aircraft). | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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