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About Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities Portfolio Office

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A scale model of an airplane with long and skinny wings supported by a truss is suspended within a wind tunnel for testing. The four walls of the wind tunnel are silver with a blue light illuminating the background.
A collaborative effort between NASA and Boeing Research and Technology, this test in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California served to characterize the aerodynamic performance and stability and control characteristics of a Truss Braced Wing configuration using pressure sensitive paint, infrared thermography, model deformation measurements, flow visualization and surface static pressures.
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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.

See “Ground Facilities

AETC Ground Facilities

Subsonic Facilities

Transonic Facilities

Supersonic Facilities

Hypersonic Facilities

Propulsion Facilities

Test Technology

AETC

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: Dennis Eck (Acting)
(216) (216) 433-3583

Facility: 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel
Contact: P. Frank Quinto
Phone: (757) 864-5068

Facility: 20 Foot Vertical Spin Wind Tunnel
Contact: Steve Riddick
Phone: (757) 864-8555

Facility: Icing Research Tunnel
Contact: Dennis Eck (Acting)
Phone: (216) 433-3583

TRANSONIC FACILITIES

Facility: National Transonic Facility
Contact: Kevin Harrell (Acting)
Phone: (757) 864-2138

Facility: 11-Foot Transonic Unitary Plan Facility
Contact: Jennifer Everett
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: Richard Bozak
Phone: (216) 433-5160

Facility: 4-Foot Supersonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
Contact: Roger L. Wagner
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: Rick Bozak
Phone: (216) 433-5160

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Last Updated
Jul 25, 2023
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