First, XD8 aerodynamics will be further developed through the design of a
transonic wind tunnel test.
Calspan is privately owned with its headquarters located in Buffalo, New York where they maintain a range of testing facilities including a
transonic wind tunnel, a vehicle crash test operation, a HYGE sled used for child seat testing, and a high performance tire testing facility.
Testing also will be conducted next year at the Boeing
Transonic Wind Tunnel in Seattle to further validate 777X high-speed performance projections.
Transonic Wind Tunnel. The experiments were conducted at a
transonic wind tunnel of blowdown type, located at Aerospace Science and Technology Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Testing began last week at Boeing's
Transonic Wind Tunnel in Seattle.
The recent series of four major tests ran simultaneously at three wind tunnels in Seattle--the Boeing
Transonic Wind Tunnel, the Low Speed Acoustic Facility and the Nozzle Test Facility--and at the QinetiQ tunnel in Farnborough.
Testing will also be completed at the Boeing
Transonic Wind Tunnel in Seattle to substantiate the forecast of the high-speed performance of the airplane.
High speed testing was conducted with the high speed model of the 747-8F at the Boeing
Transonic Wind Tunnel in Seattle.