WAR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
REMOVAL FROM BRITISH ZONE OF GERMANY
(Special Correspondent N.Z.PA.) LONDON, May 7. The removal of all War research equipment from the British zone of Germany is now almost complete. It has involved months intensive work by teams of service technicians. The huge Luftwaffe aerodynamic establishment at Gottingen, one of the best equipped and largest in the world, has been entirely stripped and the machines, which once operated 11 wind tunnels, are now packed ready for shipment to Britain, where they will be used at the aeronautical research station now being built at Bedford. Ten of the tunn»is <have been desfroyed, but the eleventh is so large that its demolition presents serious problems. It was specially made to test high jymg conditions and, with special refrigeration apparatus it could reproduce conditions at 40,000 feet. In order to insulate the tunnel, Germany bought the entire Spanish eorlccrop for 1942, Just w heri the insulation was completed a Russian set fire stonework was undamaged, but "J® Germans were never afterwards ■Die to secure enough cork to repair the insulation.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25179, 9 May 1947, Page 7
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