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Wings Under Test

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A film produced for C.S.I.R.'s Division of Aeronautics on the equipment and methods used in the testing of aircraft wings.

Produced in 1947.

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13:01:24 | CSIR logo and title
13:01:57 | Commercial aircraft ascending, exterior Essendon airport, passengersboarding TAA aircraft, fastening seat belts
13:02:27 | Aircraft taking off, pilots view from cockpit, flying
13:02:39 | RAAF Mosquito aircraft, take-off, Hudson aircraft flying low overairfield, wing falls off and aircraft crashes into ground, flames, smoke
13:03:18 | Exterior CSIR Division of Aeronautics, Fishermen's Bend, variousbuildings
13:03:36 | Model of aircraft wings mounted upside down, with loading frameslinked with loading units
13:04:55 | Testing wings of Mosquito aircraft in test bay, wings lowered inposition
13:05:24 | Drawing office, draughtsmen at drawing boards, design of wing
13:05:51 | Lab workshop, manufacture of hydraulic loading jack
13:06:32 | In test bay wing inverted, prepared, raised in test frame, compensatingloads applied, loading frames added, measurement devices attached, allbase readings on dials noted
13:14:52 | Load increased in set stages to test proof load, repeated proofloadings applied
13:17:36 | Final test to destruction and wing collapses, wing cut for testing
13:19:02 | Strength test lab, test specimens examined, various tests, reportprepared, tensile strength test
13:20:10 | Passengers in aircraft, tray of food served, view out window ofwing, aircraft flying away
13:20:39 | End