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Snow will fall in Florida this summer. But the snow will be indoors-in the Army Air Forces' "Climatic Hangar." This $6,000,000 project, abuilding at Eglin Field Proving Ground since October 1944, and scheduled for completion in July, is far & away the most ambitious attempt yet made to synthesize the vagaries of nature. Its purpose: to test planes, equipment and men under every climatic condition...
Most tests will be made in a cavernous, windowless, heavily insulated hangar large enough to hold three 6-293. Floor area: 250 by 200 feet-just slightly smaller than Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. From a normal temperature of 80° F. the hangar can be cooled to -50° in 48 hours, or warmed from 25° to 165° in 16 hours. Wind machines whip up 100-mile-an-hour storms, complete with rain, snow or hail...
With the use of special equipment an airplane will be able to do almost anything in the hangar except fly. Guns up to 75 mm. can be fired from the planes directly on to a firing range, dummy bombs dropped into pits sunk into the hangar floor. Take-offs and landings will be simulated, and motor vehicles road-tested...
...engine test room with the full temperature range of the main hangar, plus blowers for simulating sand and dust storms...
After he left, the companion C-54 that newsmen were to ride had to be trundled into the hangar and thawed out. On the bumpy, six-and-a-half-hour flight to Kansas City, they played listless poker, worried about the weather...