India, Aug. 3 -- NASA has opened its new wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, providing a critical resource for the agency and its partners to test the safety and performance of future generations of aircraft, rockets, and space exploration vehicles.
Located at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility will support advances in aircraft safety, X-plane development, drone research, and spacecraft technology. The facility will enable both free-flight and mounted testing of a wide range of scale-model vehicles designed to travel through an atmosphere, from airplanes to space capsules returning to Earth.
"The Flight Dynamics Research Facility is NASA's first major new wind tunnel ...