Operational Experience with the National Transonic Facility,

Abstract

Construction of the National Transonic Facility was completed in September 1982. Checkout of all systems is essentially complete and has required about one year. The facility has been operated to the design of point 120 million Reynolds number based on a 0.25 meter chord at a Mach number of 1.0. Performance of all systems was basically as expected. Setup for the detailed aerodynamic calibration will begin late in 1983, and calibration is expected to be complete by the last quarter of 1984.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADP003757

Entities

People

  • L. W. Mckinney

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast Tubes
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Calibration
  • Construction
  • Mach Number
  • Research Facilities
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Tunnels
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Tubes
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Software Engineering