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View from above of air pipe linked to engines on P-80 aircraft in AWT

RAM PIPE INSTALLATION ON P-80 MODEL

A Y-shaped ram pipe conducted pressurized air directly to engine inlets for some tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT), including this windmilling study of the GE I-40 engines on the Lockheed YP-80A ( 1945).

Image Credit: NASA
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