The Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) portfolio office executes strategic efforts to preserve and enhance research and test capabilities for NASA’s world-class portfolio of National Wind Tunnel facilities. These facilities are paving the way towards the future offering versatile and comprehensive ground testing in the areas of technology innovation while providing new capabilities, calibration and characterization through our diverse and highly skilled workforce.
Our assets include capabilities in the subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic speed regimes and propulsion test facilities at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. Glenn Research Center in Ohio, and Ames Research Center in California. Our state-of-the art testing support is a crucial component in the advancement of innovative technologies that will take NASA into the future, expand the human presence into space, further the understanding of our solar system and provide benefits to humanity and national and international collaboration.
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AETC Ground Facilities
Contact Information
AETC works to ensure that wind tunnels and air-breathing propulsion test facilities at NASA are available to meet our nation’s research requirements. For questions or further information about our facility capabilities or services, please use the contact information listed below.
SUBSONIC FACILITIES
Facility: 9- by 15-Foot Low Speed WInd Tunnel
Contact: Michelle Lasic
Phone: (216) 433-6347
Facility: 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel
Contact: Lisa Brown
Phone: (757) 864-8555
Facility: 20 Foot Vertical Spin Wind Tunnel
Contact: Steve Riddick
Phone: (757) 864-5092
Facility: Icing Research Tunnel
Contact: Dennis Eck (Acting)
Phone: (216) 433-3071
TRANSONIC FACILITIES
Facility: National Transonic Facility
Contact: Kevin Harrell
Phone: (757) 864-2138
Facility: 11-Foot Transonic Unitary Plan Facility
Contact: Maureen Delgado
Phone: (650) 604-1752
Facility: Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Contact: Tony (Anthony) Olszewski
Phone: (757) 864-9551
SUPERSONIC FACILITIES
Facility: 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Contact: Jonathan Kubiak
Phone: (216) 433-8347
Facility: 9- by 7-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Contact: Maureen Delgado
Phone: (650) 604-1620
Facility: 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Contact: Michelle Lasic
Phone: (216) 433-5160
Facility: 4-Foot Supersonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
Contact: Vic Tumwa
Phone: (757) 864-3060
HYPERSONIC FACILITIES
Facility: Langley Aerothermodynamics Laboratory
Contact: Karen Berger, Facility Manager
Phone: (757) 864-2279
Facility: 8-Foot High-Temperature Tunnel
Contact: Aaron Fuchs, Facility Manager
Phone: (757) 864-1264
PROPULSION FACILITY
Facility: Propulsion Systems Laboratory
Contact: Alicia Graham
Phone: (216) 433-5160
