Python Engine Installed in Altitude Wind Tunnel
Description (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, Cleveland, Ohio - now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C1949-23961
Date: August 25, 1949
Python Engine Installed in Altitude Wind Tunnel
Description (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, Cleveland, Ohio - now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C1949-23961
Date: August 25, 1949