Re: [MBZ] Wind tunnels
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: http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-351670.html RLE -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20091012/7ac99ef5/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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Wind tunnels
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: http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-351670.html RLE -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20091012/7ac99ef5/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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Wind tunnels
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:08:31 -0400 Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: 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 Uh ... yeah ... just a little larger than the spheres on a 123 wagon! Craig ___ 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
[MBZ] Wind tunnels
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