FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 6 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
"And that's Aeronautics 101." Robert Gallo, adjunct professor of aeronautics in the College of Engineering and Computing, clicks the cap back on the whiteboard marker. He opens a box of various objects: golf balls, plastic models, and airfoils. With an airfoil in hand, he prepares the tabletop Matrix wind tunnel. This, he says, is the fun part. "Now, let's fire up the fan and see what we can do."
In George Mason University's wind tunnel lab, located in the Life Sciences and Engineering Building on George Mason's Science and Technology Campus, the next generation of mechanical engineers learn the foundations of aeronautics and aerospace engineering. Supporte...