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The Use of Small Wind Tunnels in Aeroplane Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

H. Glauert
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In January of this year Mr. R. McKinnon Wood read a paper before the Society on the new American. wind tunnels, and in his paper he emphasised the importance of making tests at values of the Reynolds number which are actually obtained in flight. These modern developments of wind tunnel design comprise firstly the compressed air tunnel in which high values of the Reynolds number are obtained by testing models of the usual dimensions in a stream of air compressed to 20 atmospheres, and secondly the large wind tunnel with a free jet of 20 to 25 ft. diameter in which it is possible to test the airscrew and fuselage of an aeroplane of moderate size. Mr. Wood also emphasised the importance of a high speed wind tunnel for certain special classes of experiment.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 243 , March 1931 , pp. 207 - 230
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1931

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