Caption
Porcupine-like compressor stator blades are checked for flaws. With temperatures of 1100∞C in jet engine combustion chamber, intense heat and carbon take their toll of even the strongest metals. Canadian jet engines now on the drawing board will be built of heat-resistant titanium metal.
Release Date
August 9, 1955
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lunney, GarCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
High precision is keynote of work being done at jet engine repair plant. So delicate are some of the pieces of mechanism that technicians must scrub up and wear rubber gloves, surgeon-fashion, before beginning operations. Here an inspector examines surface of turbine shaft roller bearings.
Date
December 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB64257
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175897
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Compressor rotor from jet engine is lowered into test pit where it is spun at 9100 r.p.m. to ensure all rotor blades being secure. Downsview engine hospital is part of a network of gas-turbine assembly plants which have added self-sufficiency to Canada's burgeoning jet aircraft industry.
Date
December 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB64260
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175898
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The whining jet engines that send the RCAF's swept-wing Sabres punching through upper atmosphere at near-sonic speeds are complex labrynths [sic] of pipes, miles of wiring, thousands of delicately-machined parts. Engines must be kept at top operational efficiency, since the intense heat and carbon take their toll of even the strongest metals. Today, in a sprawling jet engine hospital at Toronto's Downsview airport, Sabre engines are overhauled with speed and efficiency. Here, carbon is blown off high precision rotor blades with a jet of crushed walnut husks.
Date
December 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB64261
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175899
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Welding damaged tail cone of engine. Engines are shipped to Downsview plant in sealed caskets, their inner workings subjected to "black light" rays to search out minute cracks and heat-developed flaws. Repaired engines are given exhaustive operating tests to meet exacting RCAF flight standards.
Date
December 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB64263
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175900
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Porcupine-like compressor stator blades are checked for flaws. With temperatures of 1100∞C in jet engine combustion chamber, intense heat and carbon take their toll of even the strongest metals. Canadian jet engines now on the drawing board will be built of heat-resistant titanium metal.
Date
December 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB64277
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175901
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #21: Jet Engine Repair Delicate Job
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
August 9, 1955
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Porcupine-like compressor stator blades are checked for flaws. With temperatures of 1100∞C in jet engine combustion chamber, intense heat and carbon take their toll of even the strongest metals. Canadian jet engines now on the drawing board will be built of heat-resistant titanium metal.
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