Published on: 2025-06-24 04:17:26
The NASA Ames low speed open wind tunnel is a cavern: A vast 120 foot wide yawning gulf, its ceiling studded with lights, it makes humans look puny & insectile. In its centre, a rotating disc holds full size aircraft or trucks. Shadow swallows the rear as the cylcopian duct disappears into a bank of colossal fans, relentlessly grasping. Up front, a huge grid shapes and straightens the air as it builds past gale force to 115 miles per hour. Supplying this colossal energy takes 104 megawatts, a sm
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