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Harvard’s new textile performs better in wind speeds by reducing drag up to 20%
Researchers have developed a new type of textile that can adjust its aerodynamic properties while worn on the body. Developed ...
Research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has shown that flying fish are every bit as good at gliding as birds. The fish are able glide for more than 40 seconds, covering distances of ...
Hitachi develops modeling tech enabling drones to navigate gusts and strong winds, aiding infrastructure inspection and logistics operations.
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Story of NASA Ames and its 80×120-foot wind tunnel that changed future of flight
In contrast, the United States continues to rely on Ames’ NFAC for low-speed, full-scale testing, complemented by the Unitary ...
A Purdue University aerospace researcher helped shape plans to install a new experiment currently on the space shuttle Discovery to collect data for controlling deadly friction and heating in the ...
The wind tunnel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by J.C. Hunsaker.--Notes on the dimensional theory of wind tunnel experiments, by E. Buckingham.--The Pitot tube and the inclined ...
Scientists have placed four PV panels in a 21-meter wind tunnel and run different tests regarding tilt angles, mounting height, spacing, and incoming flow direction. They found that when the spacing ...
The video file has four sections showing how topography and erosion rates evolve through time in the experiment. Plan-view digital elevation of the crater model (upper left) shows the crater interior ...
NASA today successfully launched two hypersonic experiments as secondary payloads atop a NASA-built Terrier-Orion two-stage research sounding rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va., at 9:52 a ...
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