A Visit To A Special Glacier

Credit: Michael Mecham/AW&ST
Building and operating a test stand large enough for 150,000-lb.-thrust gas turbine engines for Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce can be challenging, especially when it is erected in a bog where daytime temperatures for three-fourths of the year hover near zero. It turns out that the best way to...

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