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Model of 5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel

Model of 5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel

Description (January 11, 1930) Model of 5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel. Carl Wenzinger and Thomas Harris wrote in NACA TR 387: "The vertical open-throat wind tunnel of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauti... More

Full Scale Tunnel (FST) and Seaplane Tow Channel

Full Scale Tunnel (FST) and Seaplane Tow Channel

Description (August 15, 1930) Installation of Careystone covering at the Full-Scale Tunnel (FST) facility. The corrugated concrete and asbestos panels (1/4 inch thick; 42 inches wide; 62 inches long) which were... More

5-foot Vertical Wind Tunnel - NASA wind tunnel. Public domain image.

5-foot Vertical Wind Tunnel - NASA wind tunnel. Public domain image.

Description (July 12, 1932) The researcher is sitting above the exit cone of the 5-foot Vertical Wind Tunnel and is examining the new 6-component spinning balance. This balance was developed between 1930 and 19... More

11-Inch High-Speed Tunnel - NASA wind tunnel. Public domain image.

11-Inch High-Speed Tunnel - NASA wind tunnel. Public domain image.

Description: Construction of 5 Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel. The 5 Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel was built to study spinning characteristics of aircraft. It was an open throat tunnel capable of a maximum speed of 80 m... More

Full Scale Tunnel (FST) and Seaplane Tow Channel [Exterior]

Full Scale Tunnel (FST) and Seaplane Tow Channel [Exterior]

Description (August 15, 1930) Installation of Careystone covering at the Full-Scale Tunnel (FST) facility. The corrugated concrete and asbestos panels (1/4 inch thick; 42 inches wide; 62 inches long) which were... More

5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel. Experimental NASA aircraft photograph.

5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel. Experimental NASA aircraft photograph.

Description (September 18, 1930) Construction of 5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel. The 5-Foot Vertical Wind Tunnel was built to study spinning characteristics of aircraft. It was an open throat tunnel capable of a m... More

Tow Tank #1, NASA history collection

Tow Tank #1, NASA history collection

Description: Digging the channel for the Tow Tank. In the late 1920s, the NACA decided to investigate the aero/hydro dynamics of floats for seaplanes. A Hydrodynamics Branch was established in 1929 and special ... More