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