I’ve been mesmerized by enough footage of smoke streaming across a car’s surface to know that a wind tunnel technician is one of the cooler jobs in the automotive field—perhaps second only to crash ...

Freightliner LLC has opened North America’s only full-scale wind tunnel built solely for testing heavy and medium-duty trucks. The 12,000-square-foot facility, located near the company’s Portland, Ore ...

Model cars are one of the fundamental building blocks of a budding car enthusiast. Nearly everyone who shares the obsession also had (and possibly still has) a sprawling collection of die-cast model ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On May 27, 1931, a massive new wind ...

When work on the world’s first full-scale wind tunnel got underway at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in January 1930, some people saw the giant, $1 million project as just another case of ...

In contrast, the United States continues to rely on Ames’ NFAC for low-speed, full-scale testing, complemented by the Unitary ...

Okay okay, hear us out. Norway is planning to build what is apparently the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the ...

After its completion in 1931, Langley’s mammoth 30-by-60-foot Full-Scale Tunnel ranked as the largest in the world for 15 years, and the round-the-clock drag clean-up program it conducted before and ...