From left, Charlie Powell, in foreground, R. Pierson Smith and Bob Bomar, stand on turning vanes inside AEDC’s 16-foot supersonic wind tunnel test facility. Photographer Phil Tarver captured this iconic image in 1960. (Photo by Phil Tarver)
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the Langley high speed wind tunnel, early 1950s
Inside the diffuser section of the 16-foot supersonic wind tunnel at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.
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“Fun at Work: A technician in the air flow in the test section of channel 2 (1929)” [translated]
Full scale model of the X-43 plane in Langley’s 8-foot (2.4 m), high temperature wind tunnel.
No. 1 Compression rear bearing cone in the 10X10 foot wind tunnel
NASA Glenn Research Center Collection
(via NASA Images)
