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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 26, Supersonic Test Laboratory, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 26, Supersonic Test Laboratory, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

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Summary

Significance: Building 26, the Super Sonic Test Laboratory, was built during Wright Field's World War II expansion. Throughout its history it has housed the latest equipment capable of simulating subsonic, transonic or supersonic speeds. Research essential to post-World War II aircraft development has been conducted here.
Survey number: HAER OH-79-BC
Building/structure dates: 1945 Initial Construction

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1945

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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Pfueller, Lisa, transmitter

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Location

Dayton (Ohio), 39.75895, -84.19161

Google Map of 39.7589478, -84.1916069

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Library of Congress

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