http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies ... ceec784cd2
is this a concrete step up in an arms/space race or just noise?
rgds
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Re: Hypersonic wind tunnel
flyflewflown wrote:http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2120072/china-builds-worlds-fastest-wind-tunnel-test-weapons?inf_contact_key=5aae6244f3c45b062cba7e7aca5611268e4826fa8fffe5394714abceec784cd2
is this a concrete step up in an arms/space race or just noise?
rgds
FFF
Just noise I would say. Plenty of other hypersonic wind tunnels around.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_tunnels
The French one looks probably the fastest at the moment.
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Re: Hypersonic wind tunnel
Ozair wrote:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_tunnels
That is a swiss cheese kind of list. holes everywhere. i.e. it is extremely incomplete.
( Looked for the Dutch "freely flyable" windtunnel. not there )
https://www.dnw.aero/wind-tunnels/
Then for a hypersonic regime you can have rather cheap and small discontinuous systems
that feed into a vacuum vessel. They provide couple of ms measuring time.
But you can hide them everywhere.
Re: Hypersonic wind tunnel
WIederling wrote:Ozair wrote:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_tunnels
That is a swiss cheese kind of list. holes everywhere. i.e. it is extremely incomplete.
Agree but for the purposes of knowing which wind tunnel is the fastest, biggest, strongest etc it is probably good enough.
Re: Hypersonic wind tunnel
The first university I went to has a renown aerospace engineering department and their Mach 10 wind tunnel was catty-corner from my dorm.
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