NASA Tests Boeing Aircraft Tail in World's Largest Wind Tunnel

NASA's Ames Research Center and NASA's Langley Research Center, in partnership with The Boeing Co., have completed wind tunnel testing of a full-scale Boeing 757 vertical tail model equipped with active flow control technology.

[sidpandya]

0:46 reminds me of the Jurassic Park scene where they lower the cow into the velociraptor cage

[theseedshow]

Am I the only one that gets the feeling some wind tunnel tests are more fore funzies than actual data.

[RockSleeper]

Why do they have to make wind tunnels so dark and abyssal at the ends? creeps me out

[SinisterCity]

What do you do for a living?
Hold a magical smoke wand in a wind tunnel
Like what?!
Sign me up

[iloveplasticbottles]

I'd love to sleep in this wind tunnel when it's on lol

[Steeringwheelholder]

I wanna see the fans that power this thing

[ucheucheuche]

Remember to test from top to bottom, and when off axis. The clip didn't show this.

[ryanm]

Was this edited? I am in Cleveland, and our 8x6 wind tunnel at Nasa Glen Research Center is so loud it could be herd all the way in Berea and parts of North Olmstead. No noise of the large motors of the wind tunnel in this video. It'd be cool to hear. I think the 8x6 here has 6 30, 000HP motors that were installed in 1943.

[olivernavarro]

I worked for them painted some pipes. Beautiful location

[kouroshmojarrab]

what is the name of that instrument and gas, that they use to see where the wind goes ...???

[asfarinamaidin]

MayI know, is this using videometric photogrammetry?

[woodhonky]

and a guy can just stand there? what air speed?

[yneshAshanti]

Boeing aircraft tail being transported to world's largest wind tunnel to be tested by NASA.. should have really been the title.

[markong]

Or the girl is checking a security areas!

[jcjcjcjcjcjcful]

still flappy strings in 2017? seriously

[alirahimikhojasteh]

They managed to build a giant wind tunnel but didn't consider putting a robot arm instead of a human for holding the smoke nozzle. I can see 4 persons inside the tunnel, they create a huge blockage effect inside the tunnel. This visualisation is inaccurate unless they just wanted to demonstrate the smoking system, not for visualisation purposes

[machineart]

The larggest wind tunnel, isn't Modane wind turnnel?

[philipadastra]

Isn't it possible to simulate something this simple of a shape on a computer instead?

[TBake]

All I see is a waste of money, when this can be done in computer in like 8 hours lol.

[stevehines]

Tail section FAA Boeing yep wright brothers head guy wire meant to state in previous comment on wright brothers huh previous. Ya think???? Unbelievable