Novel Appliance for Quick-drying Airfields
9th September 1955, Page 52
9th September 1955
Page 52
Page 52, 9th September 1955
— Novel Appliance for Quick-drying Airfields
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I F a jet aircraft hits a large pool of water when landing, disaster might result. To avoid this risk, the CimexFraser-Tuson company, of Orpington, have produced ..the Aeroduck, by means of which a runway may quickly be dried.
The appliance is an adaptation of a machine used for drying the turf of cricket pitches. A Villiers engine drives a suction motor and a strip 6 ft. 4 in. wide may be sucked dry on one run, the Aeroduck being towed by a tractor. A rubber squeegee in front of the rear wheels sweeps the water forward and it is then sucked into a 400-gal. tank.