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TABLE 5.4 SUBSONIC WIND TUNNELS<br />

Facilty Name Tvpe of Facility Test Section Mach Reynolds Tota' Dynamic<br />

Organ lzatio Type of Throat Size Range Number . Temp Pressure<br />

Location<br />

(ft) (10 /ftJ (psf)<br />

AFFDL<br />

Vertical Wind Tunnel<br />

Wright-Patterson AFB,<br />

Ohio<br />

Annular return,<br />

continuous flow,<br />

open throat<br />

12 dia. x 12 Ambient<br />

NASA Langley<br />

Spin Tunnel<br />

Annular return,<br />

continuous flow, 25 x 20 Ambiem<br />

Hamptofl, Virginia<br />

cI osed. th roat<br />

NASA Ames Closed circuit Ambient<br />

40. foot by aD. foot<br />

Subsonic Wind Tunnel<br />

single retu rn<br />

cor,tinuous flaw<br />

40 x 80<br />

600 138<br />

Moffett Field, Calif.<br />

closed throat<br />

NASA Langley<br />

Closed circuit,<br />

Full Scale Tunnel<br />

Hampton , Virginia<br />

double return<br />

continuous flow,<br />

open th roat<br />

30 x 60 x 56 Ambient<br />

NASA Langley<br />

Closed circuit<br />

V/STOL Transition single return, 14.5 x 21.5 x 50 Ambienl<br />

Research Wind Tunnel continuous flow, 135<br />

Hampton, Virginia closed th roat<br />

NASA Ames<br />

Closed circuit,<br />

?-oot by to.foot single return, 7x10x15 Ambient<br />

Subsonic Wind Tunnel continuous flow 210<br />

Moffett Field, Calif.<br />

closed throat<br />

NASA Langley Closed circuit 490 200<br />

High Speed Hoot single return 6 x 9. 6 x 10<br />

by 1 Q.foot Tunnel continuous flow 3.2 620 750<br />

Hamptor , Virginia closed tio.oat<br />

NASA Ames Closed circuit, 5CO<br />

12.foot Pressure Tunnel single return 11.3 die. x 1 8<br />

Moffett Field, Calif. variable density, 625 600<br />

closed throat<br />

219

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