A new augmenter tube for Air New Zealand’s jet engine test bouse at Christchurch Airport being unloaded yesterday. The 13-metre tube, which is similar to the muffler of a motor-car, was built at Lyttelton by Sinclair Melbourne and Co., Ltd. The test house, originally intended for Rolls-Royce Dan propeller engines, has deteriorated over the years. The giant new "muffler” is the upgrading of the test house, which is used mainly for the testing of the JT8D jet engines which power the Boeing 737 aircraft.
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Press, 25 February 1986, Page 6
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84A new augmenter tube for Air New Zealand’s jet engine test bouse at Christchurch Airport being unloaded yesterday. The 13-metre tube, which is similar to the muffler of a motor-car, was built at Lyttelton by Sinclair Melbourne and Co., Ltd. The test house, originally intended for Rolls-Royce Dan propeller engines, has deteriorated over the years. The giant new "muffler” is the upgrading of the test house, which is used mainly for the testing of the JT8D jet engines which power the Boeing 737 aircraft. Press, 25 February 1986, Page 6
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