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 ...

How NASA Ames’ 80×120-foot wind tunnel became the beating heart of American aeronautics, testing everything from spacecraft ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp. 1775-1799 (25 pages) The paper refers to a research program which is presently in progress at Pininfarina. It deals ...

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 ...

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 ...