Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 16, 1947
Caption:
VACUUM TANKS FOR WILLOW RUN WIND TUNNEL: These oil car tanks, converted from supplies intended for the USSR during the war, are pumped free of air to create the vacuum which draws air through the University of Michigan's supersonic wind tunnel at the Willow Run Laboratories. The air, which technicians hope to get up to speeds of 7,000 miles per hour, takes only 15 seconds to pass through the tunnel-- and two and one-half hours to be pumped back to the supply balloon.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 3, 1963
Caption:
PLAN ANTARCTIC TRIP: John Alley (right), assistant film editor at the University's Television Center, points to an Explorer's Club flag he hopes to plant at the South Pole during a two-man U-M expedition to Antarctica this month to make a documentary TV film on the frozen continent. Looking on (left to right) are Lee M. (Mack) Woodruff, U-M TV production supervisor who will accompany Alley and direct the filming; Prof. Garnet R. Garrison, the University's director of broadcasting and television; and Prof.Donald F. Eschman, chairman of the geology and mineralogy department which is co-operating in the project.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 5, 1962
Caption:
DOGS AID RESEARCH: New Zealand scientists and explorers at that nation's Scott Base in Antarctica use these husky sled dogs to transport them in regions inaccessible to motor-driven vehicles. The dogs are tethered on the ice to keep them in shape.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 3, 1962
Caption:
FACE CRITICAL OIL SHORTAGE: Shown here is the main street of McMurdo Station, the main United States base in Antarctica, where 1,300 servicemen, scientist, and explorers face a serious shortage of fuel. Supply ships, days behind schedule and miles away, have been slowed to a snail's pace by thicker-than-usual ice this year. Oil supplies used to heat the buildings, melt snow for drinking water and provide light and power are expected to be depleted by Dec. 9, even under drastic rationing now in force.