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DETAIL VIEW OF CAST CONCRETE SHOWING TRANSITION FROM TUNNEL TO IGLOO. - NASA Langley Research Center, 8-Foot High Speed Wind Tunnel, 641 Thornell Avenue, Hampton, Hampton, VA
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Lowe, Jet
Title
DETAIL VIEW OF CAST CONCRETE SHOWING TRANSITION FROM TUNNEL TO IGLOO. - NASA Langley Research Center, 8-Foot High Speed Wind Tunnel, 641 Thornell Avenue, Hampton, Hampton, VA
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Wang, Charissa Y, field team; Durst, Donald M, field team; Herrin, Dean A, project manager; Lowe, Jet, photographer; Hardlines: Design and Delineation, delineator; Stewart, Robert C, historian
Depicted place Virginia; Hampton; Hampton
Date 1995
date QS:P571,+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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HAER VA,28-HAMP,4B-9
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  • Significance: The facility was authorized in July 1933 and built by the Public Works Administration for $26,000. It tested complete models of aircraft and aircraft components in a high-speed airstream approaching the speed of sound. Originally capable of testing at Mach 0.75, it was repowered in the 1940s and early 1950s to have a Mach 1.2 potential. The most important contribution of the HST was defining the causes and cures for the sever adverse stability and control problems encountered in high-speed dives. This tunnel also produced the high-speed cowling shapes used in World War II aircraft, and efficient air inlets for jet aircraft. The first 500-MPH analyses of propellers were made here early in the war. After repowering, the 8-Foot Tunnel produced precise transonic data up to Mach numbers as high as 0.92 for such aircraft as the X-1, D-558, and others. Its final achievement was the development and use in routine operations of the first transonic slotted throat. The investigations of wing-body shapes in this tunnel led to Richard Whitcomb's discovery of the transonic area rule. The HST developed an impressive record in aviation history as an example of accomplishment by imaginative researchers.
  • Survey number: HAER VA-118-B
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