by slracer » Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:16 pm
When it comes to impressive wind tunnels, the link below will take you to a description of the North American Aviation (then North American Rockwell, Rockwell, Boeing North American, and finally, Boeing - 1997). The tunnel was referred to as the "Trisonic" because it would flow more than Mach 3 with a seven FOOT square test section! And it was used a lot of times at those speeds (including the Mach 3 B-70 program). The tunnel they let me use was 24 INCHES high by 42 INCHES wide and would flow about 50mph (~0.6M). :p
Rusty (the author) was one of the "icons" of the tunnel world!
Doug
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