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Project Fire Model

Virginia Air & Space Science Center

NASA Langley Visitor Center

 

Project Fire Model

This is a scale replica of a Project Fire wind-tunnel model. The different layers of heat shield were designed to come off during test, so that more than one type of material could be evaluated

 

The Tools of Research

The orange box holds a motion picture camera, specially packaged to resist extremely high acceleration. Film drums were used to record and store information from flight recorders, such as the dual-range Flight Pressure Recorder

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Uploaded on January 4, 2023
Taken on October 12, 2022