Sky laboratories test high altitude flight gear in cold rooms
In Santa Monica a sky laboratory recreates minus 104 degree conditions to study aircraft parts and human endurance at extreme altitude. Engineers and pilots wear insulated suits and oxygen systems as they test fuel, oil, controls, and bearings, aiming to improve bombers and fighters for safer, higher, faster flight beyond the tropopause.
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Tropopause
Sky Laboratories
Connecticut
California
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Earth
Santa Monica
Tom Floyd
This Week In The Sky November sky guide
AMS Hayden Planetarium notes EMS is the brightest western sky object Monday night November 24. It reaches greatest eastern elongation and remains above the southwestern horizon after sunset. The Moon is first quarter and due south at sunset on the 25th. Mars and the Moon align Friday at 5 10 P M EST. Saturn rises in the east at sunset and Jupiter follows. Orion appears in the east by 8 00 P M and the Southern Cross sits high in the west.
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EMS
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Orion
Milestones of Science: High speed impact strengthens metal absorption
A Schenectady lab tests show metals absorb more energy when struck at high strain rates than when pulled slowly. The study aims to quantify energy absorption in metals under rapid hammering. Also noted is a study on maternal death from amniotic fluid embolism and a locust-killing microbe, plus a thundercloud electricity indicator device using a neon tube and tungsten rod.
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Schenectady
Journal of the American Medical Association
Schenectady Laboratories
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American Museum of Natural History
New York City
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