WIND TUNNEL AT PODBERESJE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01028R000100130002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The wind tunnel was designed at Dessau to be driven by a JUMO 004
jet engine.
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CENTRAL .INTELLI.G.ENCE AGENCY
* -`' INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR/ Germany
SUBJECT o Wind Tunnel at Podberesje
s wend tun.ne.l staff took u other work,
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tuine the
provi e` goo resu.ls which were largely verified
by the results cf subsequent wind tunnel -bests at ZAGI. Other in-
formation indicates that the operation of the Podberesje wind tun-
nel was discontinued probably sometime in 1949 or early 1950, and
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Strauss' and his wind tunnej staff Were'
developing, imnrnvinz
(some parts for the wind tunnel
w re teeing made in the workshops as .ate as August 1950- M ~~-
ing instr4m6nts especially were being worked on
interfere with other construction.
(Straups built radio receivers as a hobby. In-the beginning of
1950, there were rumors that he had built a transmitter and that
he was going to be arrestedt but,the rumor proved to be false.)
The original Junkers wind tun ?l m Dessau was
shipped to Podberesje and then
depoai'I && in an open field and left to deteriorate.
he wind tunnel built at Dessau after the war was driven b hi
ressu
t
re s
eam.
Vhi$ tunnel was about t ree to fou "imes as 1a
were;:.; used in the Fodberesje tunnel.,
-e4d
none of th. parts
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