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Show i ' . j'' ' ' jii m ; J .it ir :.' g ,,;v v-y ! k . P )' - ii J t t ""--A.' oit "IMAM" .1 . - y-" ... . J i.. . ... .-- .-' . y-' ... i SCHEMATIC DRAWING. A schematic drawing of project S M A R T is shown here. Location of this Air Force testing project that was successfully tested last week is just a few miles northwest of Virgin, Vir-gin, Utah. A rocket-propelled "locomotive" "locomo-tive" pushes "test carriages," which simulate sim-ulate the cockpit of an airplane, at high-speeds high-speeds along 2V2 mile track, which has tolerance of 51000th of an inch. Near the end of the test run (A) dummy is cata pulted from carriage by seat-ejection mechanism. me-chanism. Parachute lowers "pilot" safely safe-ly to ground. At (B) "locomotive" is stopped stop-ped by a water braking device and "test-carriage" "test-carriage" is shot off end of cliff. Parachute Para-chute lowers carriage to floor of desert where it is recovered for further testss. |