Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complete with first-aid casualties, incendiary fires and other hazards of an air raid. Adams House held a test alarm last night "to discover operational defects." Richard N. Swift '44, head Adams warden, said after the raid, that it was "entirely successful in this respect...
Lasting for one hour, the raid was primarily a test for ARP personnel, whose functioning Swift described as "excellent." The firefighters came in for especial praise from the head warden, while other services, including the wardens and the first aiders also performed admirably, he said...
...tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill on his fanny while his pals scamper on ahead. Walt, old pal, this is life as l see it. The furriest, plumpest, liveliest achievement of modern impressionism. Bambi and his old lady...
Before the flight recorder was introduced, test temperatures and stresses were jotted down by the pilot from a few relatively inaccurate dashboard instruments. Plane builders thought they were lucky if a pilot managed to get eight or nine readings in five minutes-correct to the nearest 10 or 15 degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
About the size of a suitcase, weighing 128 lb., the compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...