Using Little WInd Tunnels Instead of Big Ones
MSFC wind tunnel crucial to analyzing spacecraft designs, Huntsville Times
“The government has several large wind tunnels around the country, including Arnold Air Force Base near Tullahoma, Tenn., NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia and the Ames Research Center near San Francisco. “We can do for just thousands of dollars on a series of tests what it would take hundreds of thousands or millions on a larger tunnel,” Haynes said. “For the government, it’s a cost-effective way to gather engineering data.”