WIND TUNNEL SPEEDS EIGHT TIMES FASTER THAN SPEED OF SOUND
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 IRecd. 7.10 pm).—Wind tunnel tests in which blasts of air travelled more than eight times faster than the speed of sound, were announced today by RearAdmiral A. G. Noble, chief of the Navy’s Ordnance Bureau. Admiral Noble said the tests and related experiments promised “invaluable data for the design of faster flying and longer-range weapons.” He added that the tests had explored an unknown region which held promise of producing essential design information for vastly superior weapons. The tremendous speed was obtained by causing the air flow at considerable pressure through a rectangular nozzle scarcely wider than the thickness of several sheets of paper, into an expanding throat. Some mathematical problems arising r rom the tests were so complex that 10 years would have been required by ordinary calculating methods to work out the answers. However, the high speed “robot brain” computed the answers in a “matter of weeks.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1950, Page 5
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