> ...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.... > My friend Mike T. (an honest-to-God German scientist) retired a while back from Nasa Ames and many years ago when I was visiting family in San Mateo, he invited me down to Ames for a tour. We walked through the gigantic wind tunnel there, a huge rectangle with giant fans to move the air. I was a little reticent to walk through, thinking about somehow the fans starting up and me coming out the other side as just so much Norwegian sliced herring. Didn't happen.
I also got a short ride in their centrifuge and lasted maybe five minutes before I felt like my innards were going to extrude through various bodily openings. Much staggering after debarking from the machine. Mike was one of about three NASA people calculating heat gain on returning Mars spacecraft. RLE > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20091013/bad7d5b2/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
