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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 1793.PDF
AUGUST 27TH, 194a FLIGHT 227- • S ^B E J-vW^ !l iplil ;__=I^«a«»a»«<«-"-^'~'^^ r ^^•fi .... .. H^SHLI. i: V'-^7: -:'' -: X-ray field-service laboratory towed by a car to a Lockheed Lightning P-38 fighter for an assumed diagnosis. MOBILE X-RAY LABC^RATORY Trader Unit for. US. Army Air Forces : Coma/fete Diagnosis on the Spot PARTS of-a military aircraft can now be X-rayed .and completely diagnosed for structural weakne8s"*'right on the airfield within a quarter of an hgtrLuifter the aircraft lands. This is made possible by me^ns pfakrnobile laboratory which is being supplied to the Uriited\States Aii Forces by the Lockheed Aircraft Cc Such an examination reveals whethfl assembly, an airscrew blade or other paprt has bcSp stij in service and developed an invisible? flaw!, or Is i condition for the aircraft to be flown mmepiatel need of making a replacement,^? re graphs are taken without removal 0$, the aircraft and are developed on the spa lisyfaboratory, designed and patented by Tom Triplett, Triplett and Barton Laboratories at the Lockheed t, is a self-contained unit built on a two-wheeled trailer is designed to be hau|ed by a motor car or truck at a formal speed, ofjuj m.a:h. on smooth ground or over rough ground,, at ^css speed on dual tyres. It has an y^erall Jtagth of flaft.^Ain., a width of 5ft. 2in., and a height or 5ft. ioin. wh)?n closed for travelling, and weighs 4,000 lb. The unique oyal body houses hydraulic mechanism for operating arfte*Iescopic boom and a yoke which carry the X-raj^*rfachine. The boom can be rotated on its axis Fough 360 deg. and the yoke moved up and down through (Left) X-raying an airscrew blade. The X-ray machine is carried in a yoke at the end of a telescopic boom and can be moved up and down and rotated by hydraulic mechanism in the trailer. (Right) Plates are developed in 12 minutes in the curtained dark room built in the trailer.
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