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Air Breathing Engine Testing in the Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility of the Arnold Engineering Development Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. W. Hensel
Affiliation:
ARO, Inc
M. Pindzola
Affiliation:
ARO, Inc

Extract

The purpose of this paper is to further illustrate the utility of a wind tunnel (see refs. 1 and 2) in providing performance date on aircraft engine installations. The discussion is limited to the test work accomplished in the Propulsion, Wind Tunnel Facility (PWT) at the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) at Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA

Type
Symposium on Altitude Testing
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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