Mt. Washington Icing Lab, New Hampshire

Description

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INDEX OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25 D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 (B) RADIO - TV BRANCH, TELEVISION SECTION Release No. 125-57 PICTORIAL BRANCH, NEWSREEL SECTION ROOM 2E-791 EXT. 72902 75061 Footages 125 0 ROOM 2D-780A EXT. 75111 For release 6 August 1957 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Universal FINE GRAIN TO: NBC-TV MI. WASHINGTON ICING LAB (Official Air Force footage released by Dept. of Defense) Up the slopes of Mc.Washington near Goram, New Hampshire go tons of equipment and materials to be tested in an outdoor laboratory almost at the summit of this 6,300° mountain Clouds shroud the test site from November through May temperatures plummet to way below sero, winds screen around the test items and buildings at 100 miles per hour: all of which make Mount Washington an ideal location for studying the effects of icing on all types of equipment Companies which manufacture aircraft parts, engines and component equipment under Air Force contract use this facility to study the reaction of their equipment to icing conditions. Sequences show: (a) Trucks loaded with equipment in wooden crates en route to the Air Force Icing Laboratory atop Mt. Washington, No Ho (10) Radar equipment being tested. (c) Men studying reaction of aircraft parts, engines apd component equipment to icing conditions. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribu- tion to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 7 days to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. À dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so siring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth venue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be available to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The DUPE NEGATIVES must not be cut in any manner. B-30102

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Filmed News Releases