MIT unveils its new Wright Brother's wind tunnel, 80 years since the last one.
“It just wasn't holding up against our modern standards of wind tunnel testing. Our goal was to bring our vintage tunnel into the 21st century and beyond, and we did that.”with the likes of Wilbur and Orville Wright using one before their historic flight in 1903. They tested candidate wing designs in their self-built, simple open-ended wind tunnel.
Wind tunnels are also used by scientists and engineers for basic research, such as investigating how air behaves when it interacts with an item to better understand fluid mechanics.
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