X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Wind tunnel


Aston Martin DB6

Wind tunnel testing, begun in February 1965, showed development was necessary to counteract a tendency toward aerodynamic lift a result of the fastback styling causing reduced rear-wheel traction at high speed.

Wind tunnel

Doriot Climatic Chambers, climatic wind tunnel centre operated by the United States military


Aircraft design process

In this phase, wind tunnel testing and computational fluid dynamic calculations of the flow field around the aircraft is done.

Columbia River Gorge

Atmospheric pressure differentials east and west of the Cascades create a wind tunnel effect in the deep cut of the gorge, generating 35 mph (56 km/h) winds that make it a popular windsurfing and kitesurfing location.

Dymaxion car

Isamu Noguchi was involved with the development of the Dymaxion car, creating plaster wind tunnel models that were a factor in determining its shape, and during 1934 drove it for an extended road trip through Connecticut with Clare Boothe Luce and Dorothy Hale.

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.


see also

118 WallyPower

The hull of the 118 WallyPower is the result of an extensive R&D program including tank testing at the SSPA facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, and smoke testing in the Ferrari Wind Tunnel Facility in Maranello, Italy.

Akaflieg München Mü18 Meßkrähe

Initiated by the RLM (Reichsluftfahrministerium – Reich Aviation Ministry), the Mü18 "Meßkrähe" was an experimental flying wind-tunnel used to research aerofoil sections in undisturbed airflow.

Art Center College of Design

The Wind Tunnel has hosted events including the biannual Art Center Design Conference, like 2008's "Serious Play"; an annual Summit on Sustainable Mobility, and "Stories from the Source: Radical Craft"; large exhibitions such as "Supersonic: 1 Wind Tunnel, 8 Schools, 120 Artists", "Gardenlab", and "Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living" (with Vitra Design Museum); and various community meetings and events.

Arthur Roderick Collar

After graduating from Cambridge, Collar joining the Aerodynamics Department at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, where he worked on propellors, airship dynamics, wind-tunnel design, and especially on flutter and matrix analysis.

Calspan

Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory conducted wind tunnel test on models of a number of skyscraper buildings, including most notably the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts.

Deflected slipstream

Other wind tunnel studies of deflected slipstream VTOL mechanics were conducted in 1955 and 1956 by Richard Kuhn and John Draper at the NACA Langley Research Center.

Don R. Berlin

With his introduction to aeronautics in conducting early wind tunnel tests for the U.S. Army Air Corps at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, subsequently, starting in 1926, Berlin worked for Douglas Aircraft Company as project engineer and chief draftsman.

DRDO Anti Tank Missile

After the first aerodynamic design was completed, a full scale model of the complete configuration was tested in a wind tunnel at IISc Bangalore.

Edmund T. Allen

Theodore von Kármán intervened and recommended to Eddie Allen that the Boeing wind tunnel should be designed for airspeeds near the speed of sound.

McDonnell XP-67

The project was also delayed by intense competition for testing time at the NACA wind tunnel facility in Langley, Virginia.

Modine Manufacturing

The company built a "world-class" vehicular wind tunnel in Racine, Wisconsin in 1941.

Pacific PR01

Most of the PR01's aerodynamics and design on a whole was based on Reynard's Formula 3000 car, with 'best guess' aerodynamics as the car had undergone none of the vital wind tunnel testing required to refine the car's aerodynamics.

Pelikan tail

Virginia Tech students built a Pelikan tail model and got positive results for its viability using a wind tunnel.

Vertical wind tunnel

A vertical wind tunnel performance in Moscow's Red Square was shown in 2009 during the presentation of logotype of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Indoor skydiving also appeals to the mass market audience that are afraid of heights, since in a vertical wind tunnel, one only floats a few feet above trampoline-type netting.

W.W.S.3 Delfin

Salamandra and W.W.S.2 Żaba, Wacław Czerwiński designed an all wood glider with smooth lines derived from wind tunnel tests at the Lwów Technical University.

Zmaj R-1

After tests in the wind tunnel in Warsaw, has been offered command of the Air Force project, which was adopted on 28 March 1938, and received the official designation Zmaj R-1.