The Wright Brothers used wind tunnel data to refine their design for the first successful airplane back in 1903. Today, wind tunnels are still in use all over the world gathering data to improve the design of cars, trucks, airplanes, missiles and spacecraft. Ames Research Center is home to many wind tunnels, including the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel complex. Built in the early 1950s, it is one of the premiere transonic and supersonic testing facilities in the country. Every manned spacecraft has been tested in the wind tunnels at Ames. This is a testing history from past to present.
Brothers Were Wright - An Abridged History of Wind Tunnel Testing at Ames Research Center
2017
34 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aeronautics , Histories , Transonic wind tunnels , Wind tunnel tests , Semispan models , Space launch system (sls) , Supersonic wind tunnels , Sonic booms , Shadowgraph photography , Aeroacoustics , Airfoils , Body-wing configurations , Manned space flight , Saturn 5 launch vehicles , Mach number , Reynolds number
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