And at the top left in this pic you can see the vac spheres (a little
larger than the spheres on the 123 wagon) of the hypersonic wind tunnels
http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-351670-19.html
--R
Rich Thomas wrote:
In summers in college I had internships at NASA Langley, the first
summer I worked in the Hypersonic Research Division, we had 3 or 4
hypersonic blow-down tunnels that worked by sucking air through the
tunnel into these huge vacuum spheres that were pumped down between
runs. It would take an hour or two to pump them down and the run time
was like 30 seconds or less, depending, but enough time to get some
good data (the crunching of which was my job, ugh). I did learn a LOT
about programming in Fortran on CDC Cyber computers (or rather,
understanding the error dumps when the programs crashed), which made
me almost an expert in debugging when I got back to school. I
actually designed a few little pieces of equipment that were still
sitting around in the lab the last time I visited a few years later,
probably still there.
It was kinda fun being around a bunch of old-time engineers who smoked
like chimneys and cussed like sailors while working on some really
cool stuff.
--R
relng...@aol.com wrote:
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RLE
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