Bakside:
P40613
Photo by The Boeing Company
Bildetekst:
Robert Downing, Boeing Company engineer, checks the "wing" of the Iron Bird, a flight controls system test device used in th ...
Bakside:
P40613
Photo by The Boeing Company
Bildetekst:
Robert Downing, Boeing Company engineer, checks the "wing" of the Iron Bird, a flight controls system test device used in the development of the new Boeing 737 short-to-medium range jetliner. Located at the company's Renton, Washington, complex, the 94-foot-long device is a dimensionally similar skelton of the real 737. It us used to perfect and prove the twinjet's flight control systems .. the operation of elevators, ailerons, spoilers and rudder -- prior to flight. The Iron Bird first was used in the development of the Boeing 727 trijet and has been completely redesigned and rebuiot for the 737 which will make it's first flight early in 1967.
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