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HomeCharacteristicsQuick FactsData AcquisitionGalleryVirtual Tour Data Acquisition and Processing Inputs: Analog, digital and electronically scanned pressure (ESP) system. Controller: Open Architecture…
HomeCharacteristicsQuick FactsData AcquisitionGalleryVirtual Tour This facility assesses conventional performance for low-speed tests of powered and unpowered models of various fixed-…
HomeCharacteristicsQuick FactsData AcquisitionGalleryVirtual Tour Speed: 348 feet per second Reynolds Number: 0 to 2.2 x 106 per foot Pressure: Atmospheric…
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor…
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HomeCharacteristicsFacility BenefitsFacility ApplicationsData AcquisitionGallery Characteristics Subsonic Facilities
HomeCharacteristicsFacility BenefitsFacility ApplicationsData AcquisitionGallery Facility Applications 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel Fact Sheet Subsonic Facilities
HomeCharacteristicsFacility BenefitsFacility ApplicationsData AcquisitionGallery Data Acquisition and Processing 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel Fact Sheet Subsonic Facilities
Maneuvering aircraft may encounter a dangerous condition known as spin, caused by a sudden loss of lift over wings or…
NASA’s aeronautical innovators are using the most modern research tools available, including 3D printing, to generate new data that will…
NASA Glenn’s 9-by 15-Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (9 x 15 LSWT) has just completed a series of acoustic improvements that has…
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The 4-Foot Supersonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) is a closed-circuit, continuous-flow, variable-density supersonic tunnel with two 4- by 4-…
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HomeCharacteristicsQuick FactsData AcquisitionGalleryVirtual Tour The NTF is a high-pressure, cryogenic, closed-circuit wind tunnel that uses supercold nitrogen gas at high…
HomeCharacteristicsQuick FactsData AcquisitionGalleryVirtual Tour Speed: Mach 0.08 Reynolds Number: 4 x 106 to 145 x 106 per foot Pressure: 15…
The Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) portfolio office executes strategic efforts to preserve and enhance research and test capabilities…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities When process improvement techniques are applied, additional capabilities may be discovered which may in turn unlock additional techniques to further…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Since process improvement examines the methodology used for testing, the techniques are aimed more towards methods than towards…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Process improvement targets these areas:
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Test Technology has the capability to provide different forms of information that may come from known flow measurement techniques.…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Common means of flow measurement include: These flow measurement techniques may provide information on many different flow characteristics,…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Editor’s note: This material is being kept online for historical purposes, but it will no longer be updated. Fundamentally,…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Editor’s note: This material is being kept online for historical purposes, but it will no longer be updated. Within…
In ground testing, force measurement systems, typically referred to as “balances,” are state-of-the-art instruments used as the primary measurement device…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Common means of flow measurement include: These flow measurement techniques may provide information on many different flow characteristics,…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities The development of a well-designed vehicle is not limited to measuring the pressures and forces that are induced…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilities Editor’s note: This material is being kept online for historical purposes, but it will no longer be updated. Test…
HomeQuick FactsTechniquesCapabilitiesGallery NASA’s angle measurement technologies have the capability to present different forms of information that come from known measurement techniques.…
