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Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:43 amby Tony
Arguably the biggest flow benches ever built are actually wind tunnels.
If we are going to have a "mine is bigger than yours" argument, then you will need at lest several thousand horsepower to power the fan of your wind tunnel to play this game.
Posted:
Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:50 amby FPV_GTp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tunnel
"German aviation laboratory, 1935"
and
"Fan blades of Langley Research Center's 16 foot transonic wind tunnel in 1990, before it was mothballed in 2004."
Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel
How to Build and Use a Subsonic Wind Tunnel
14 X 22 Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Posted:
Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:40 pmby jsa
Posted:
Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:16 pmby slracer
When it comes to impressive wind tunnels, the link below will take you to a description of the North American Aviation (then North American Rockwell, Rockwell, Boeing North American, and finally, Boeing - 1997). The tunnel was referred to as the "Trisonic" because it would flow more than Mach 3 with a seven FOOT square test section! And it was used a lot of times at those speeds (including the Mach 3 B-70 program). The tunnel they let me use was 24 INCHES high by 42 INCHES wide and would flow about 50mph (~0.6M). :p
Rusty (the author) was one of the "icons" of the tunnel world!
Doug