All-weather laboratory for testing bomber instruments

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Book ID: 104132878
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1942
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 234
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(42)90105-4

✦ Synopsis

All-Weather Laboratory for Testing Bomber Instruments.-FRANCIS A. WESTBROOK reports in Heating and Ventilating, Vol. 39, No. 9, that rain, snow, fog, any degree of humidity, intense sunlight, and temperatures ranging from -50" to + 150' F. are some of the weather effects which can be produced at will in a special testing room recently built by the Sperry Gyroscope Company. Many of the company's products such as directional gyros, gyrohorizons, high intensity searchlights, and others, especially those installed on the Army and Navy bombers, must function properly in all climates and temperatures.

Under war conditions it is not possible to make tests in all parts of the world to develop this equipment, and, under any circumstances, the work can be done more quickly and satisfactorily in a laboratory where the,atmosphere is under control.