Word: tullahoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Air Force called Sverdrup to a bigger job. To Aro, Inc., a Sverdrup & Parcel subsidiary, it gave the task of operating its $100 million Arnold (for the late "Hap" Arnold) Engineering Development Center now abuilding at Tullahoma, Tenn. That was fitting enough; Sverdrup's firm drew the plant's blueprints five years...
...Tullahoma center, which will not be in complete operation until 1952, Sverdrup's men will test life-size mockups of jets, turbojets and rockets under conditions simulating altitudes up to 75,000 ft. They will operate the largest supersonic wind tunnel in the U.S., to reproduce conditions found at sea-level speeds of 2,500 m.p.h. A smaller facility will test guided missiles at simulated speeds up to 7,500 m.p.h.* To Sverdrup thus went one of the key jobs in keeping the U.S. ahead in the race for technical supremacy...