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Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Originally listed as “MAGNETIC HYPERSONIC WIND TUNNEL“. Farnborough, Hampshire Various shots, hydraulic pumps in action in the pump room, the pumps evacuate vacuum chambers on one side of the tunnel. MS Compressed air bottles feed air to heat chamber. (2 shots). MS From walking camera following a pipe line along ground. MS The large heat chambers. Various shots, the complex laboratory which houses the Magnetic Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, engineers carry out the tests. MS and CU A model of the supersonic aircraft, Concorde, is subjected to tests. LS Engineers monitoring the model inside the chamber. CU An engineer adjusting levels. CU Hands on dials. CU Dials and gauges on equipment tell the reactions of various parts of the model, giving comparisons between the drag profile of the cone and hovercraft. CU A hand suspends a missile cone model in the tunnel with the use of magnets. CU Cone in tunnel. CU Dials recording model position and
