[Leica] IMG: Compressor Unit 1986

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

My ears still ring from years of exposure, even with hearing protection, to 
the sounds of wind tunnel compressor plants that I managed during my working 
career.  This is one of the smaller compressors, photographed during a rare 
photo op at an "open house" day in 1986.  Like aircraft turbine engines, 
these compressors had to undergo periodic inspections.  Since the ducting 
was above the compressors, all of it had to be disassembled and removed in 
order to remove the top half of the compressor case to inspect the 
compressor blades, seals, and bearings.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Compressor+Unit+1986.jpg.html

Comments and critiques welcomed.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA