1944 Boeing B-17 Wind Tunnel WWII WW2 Vintage Ad World War II 2 B17 Flying Fortress Hurricane in Harness Seattle 44 *You Choose Frame-Mat Colors-Free USA S&H*
- Authentic, Vintage Magazine Ad professionally matted and framed in an Historic Route 66 Town.
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This great World War II era Vintage Ad was printed in a 1944 issue. These are wonderful advertisements, and we only have a limited number available.
Some of the text in this Vintage Ad:
Buy War Bonds -to Have and lo Hold
Hurricanes in Harness
Poised on knife-edged supports,
the ten-foot scale model of` a
Boeing Flying Fortress rides the
screaming gale. Engineers, tense
at their control panels, watch and
check every reaction of the sturdy
airplane. In an hour they can learn
more about the flight characteristics
of a new wing or a new tail
design than would be revealed in
months of actual flying.
The Boeing wind tunnel, in the
recently dedicated Edmund T.
Allen Memorial Aeronautical Laboratories
at Seattle, is capable of
speeds in the 700-mile-an-hour
range, approximating the speed of
sound-four or five times faster
than a Gulf hurricane or a typhoon.
A gigantic 16-bladed fan, 24
feet in diameter, funnels the air
into the "throat" of the test section.
Power from a rated I8,000 horsepower
synchronous electric
motor is transmitted to the fan
through the largest magnetic clutch
ever built.
But speed is only one of the
features that make this huge structure
an exceptional contribution
to the advancement of aeronautical
silence.
Boeing-designed balances of extraordinary
accuracy measure the
airplane model's performance. The
forces of lift, drag, yaw, pitch and
roll at any given air-speed are registered
on instruments that record
variations from fractional ounces
to 10,000 pounds.
The tunnel provides greater
accessibility, utility and ease of
operation than has ever before
been possible. Instantaneous automatic
recording of all data in
numerical form permits immediate
computation and analysis.
The Boeing wind tunnel is now
ready to help speed the day of victory.
When the war is won, it will
mean much to increased comfort,
speed, safety and economy in air
transportation. As in the past, Boeing
leadership in design, engineering
and manufacturing will set the pace
in aeronautical development of peacetime
aircraft products.
Designers of the Flying Fortress – The New B-29 Super Fortresses – The Stratoliner – Transocean Clippers
Boeing
A great Vintage Ad!
You pick your frame color, and you pick your mat color. We will mat and frame your Vintage Ad per your request and send it to you promptly. All you have to do is remove it from the box and hang it on the wall in your home, office, garage, man cave, or showroom!
We mat and frame original, vintage magazine ads...they are in good condition, but may not be perfect as they are many decades old. Frame outside dimensions are 15" x 12", and matted ad is approximately 9-5/8" x 6-5/8" (could be slightly different, depending on ad).
Frames and vintage ads are actual as shown, and mat is computer generated for online viewing. Actual mat is custom cut for each individual ad and mat color will be similar to the colors shown on the website. “Travel Route 3 Scan” watermark is placed on the ad for online viewing only, and is not part of the final product. Back side of Vintage Ad is glued to backing paper so that it continues to display flat over time. Here is what you will receive:
- New frame
- New mat
- New glass
- Vintage Ad
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