The Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California, 1945

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Photograph. Exterior view of the Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/13/45--New Wind Tunnel for testing aircraft--This is an exterior view of the new Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel for aeronautical research. Four great aircraft companies in the U.S. west coast state of California cooperated with the California Institute of Technology to build it, so that the behavior of planes might be studied under varied controlled atmospheric conditions. Construction took over three years, required 2,500,000 (1,135,000 KGS) of steel and 17 miles (11 KM) of electric arc welding. A duplicate of the tunnel is being built by the Curtiss-Wright Company at Buffalo in the east coast state of New York.--PWW photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6686." Pasadena, California. 13 June 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.361
Date: 
06/13/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Aeronautics--California
Wind tunnels--California
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Pasadena
Latitude: 
34.167
Longitude: 
-118.150
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Aeronautics--California
Wind tunnels--California