NASA Men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for ...

iFly is an indoor skydiving experience which you can do at three centres in the UK – Basingstoke, Manchester, and Milton Keynes. It works by using a vertical wind tunnel which pushes out a ...

The list of renewable energy options for homes is growing almost by the day, and one of the most popular solutions is a VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine). The main difference between these units and ...

U.S. startup Rune Aero is using an interactive virtual wind tunnel powered by physics-based machine learning algorithms to optimize the design of an autonomous cargo aircraft. The technology combines ...

Typically, when we talk about wind tunnels, we think of the big facilities in use by the aerospace and motorsports industries. However, there’s nothing stopping you building a wind tunnel of ...

Hypersonic speeds are defined by those exceeding Mach 5, and lately there’s been a lot of buzz about unmanned hypersonic vehicles making test flights. Vehicles returning from orbital flight also ...

Some of the finest asphalt in the UK can be found in a Victorian railway tunnel in Northamptonshire. Just a few weeks ago the final 2.7km of black stuff was laid in Catesby Tunnel by a company ...

The wind tunnel testing was carried out to validate the company’s Stop/Fold Jet Transition capability. Bell has completed wind tunnel testing of its X-plane model at the National Institute for ...

The H2K of the DLR Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology in Cologne is a wind tunnel with a free-jet test section. The facility enables aerodynamic and aerothermal characterisation for scale ...