hypersonic wind tunnel

[¦hī·pər′sän·ik ′win ‚tən·əl]

(engineering)

A wind tunnel in which air flows at speeds roughly in the range from 5 to 15 times the speed of sound.

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The three-year contribution will fund vertical takeoff and landing research conducted at the university's rotorcraft lab, and high-speed flight experiments up to Mach 8, or 6,000 mph, at the school's hypersonic wind tunnel. It will also underwrite programs overseen by the Clark School's Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering that aim to increase the enrollment of women and under-represented minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines.

Lockheed Martin Awards $3 Million to University Of Maryland

An experimental investigation of the airframe-integrated scramjet 14-X B was made in the pulsed hypersonic wind tunnel T3 at IEAv.

Experimental Investigation of Brazilian 14-X B Hypersonic Scramjet Aerospace Vehicle

Although most of the wind tunnels are at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., AEDC has other facilities, such as Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Md.

High velocity: wind tunnels test the pace of technology

It's a hypersonic wind tunnel that can simulate flight speeds up to around 16 times the speed of sound.

The honest broker for science and technology

This is a well-known fact among aerospace researchers and it has been stressed that realizing a hypersonic wind tunnel is itself an engineering task of monumental proportions.

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