Accession Number:

ADA379310

Title:

Facility Air Control Systems Design for a Pilot Transonic Wind Tunnel

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE FLIGHT DYNAMICS LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH

Personal Author(s):

• Cain, Maurice R.

Report Date:

1979-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

56.0

Abstract:

In late 1973 and early 1974 plans were being formulated in the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory AFFDL for constructing a wind tunnel with a fifty inch square test section with variable geometry walls. The variable geometry of the walls would provide an adaptive test section which would allow testing larger models in a smaller tunnel than possible in a comparable sized conventional tunnel. The facility would provide support for in-house test programs when time in other, larger tunnels was not available, and provide this support at a lower cost These economies would also permit a more thorough job of testing, which is important in a flight regime where discontinuities exists in modeling theories.

Descriptors:

• *TRANSONIC WIND TUNNELS
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• LOW COSTS
• THEORY
• TEST EQUIPMENT
• ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
• GEOMETRY
• FLIGHT ENVELOPE
• PILOT PLANTS

Subject Categories:

• Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
• Fluid Mechanics
• Aerodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE