Ground Testing Photos & Videos

Links to photos, videos, and fact sheets provided by ground testing facilities around the world:

·      A slideshow regrouping photos from the NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels (Powerpoint, 11MB)

·      A slide presenting the Experimental Fluid Dynamics division of the US Air Force Research Lab (Powerpoint, 3MB)

·      A slideshow presenting the ground testing facilities at Sandia National Laboratories (Powerpoint, 3MB)

·      A movie presenting the European Transonic Wind Tunnel in Cologne, Germany (Mpg, 165MB)

·      A movie presenting the Arnold Engineering Development Center ground testing activities (DVD format: download the “VIDEO_TS” zip file (300MB), unzip, and open with a DVD viewer)

·      Fact sheets about AEDC’s facilities (PDF)

o      AEDC presentation

o      4T Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel

o      10V Space Chamber

o      12V Space Chamber 

o      12V Electric Propulsion Test Facility

o      High-Enthalpy Arc-Heated Test Facilities

o      Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facilities

o      Aerothermodynamic Measurement Laboratory 

o      Engine Test Facility

o      Impact and Lethality Testing

o      Hypersonic Wind Tunnels

o      Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9

o      Rocket Development Test Cell J-4

o      J-6 Large Rocket Motor Test Facility

o      Mark 1 Test Facility

o      Propulsion Wind Tunnel 

o    The von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnels

·      Fact sheets for ground testing facilities at Eglin AFB

o    The McKinley Climatic Laboratory

o    The Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems


This page last updated 7/3/08. Contact Julien Weiss with any changes.