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2 unusual facts about David Taylor Model Basin


David Taylor Model Basin

The new navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

Michael E. McCormick

He began his career in 1958 as a hydrodynamicist at the U. S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin.


Marshall P. Tulin

After graduating from MIT in 1946, he first worked on high-speed wind tunnel testing of the X-1 aircraft before moving to work for the Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin.


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