NASA CLOSES LANGLEY WIND TUNNEL
Citing budget constraints and duplication of facilities, NASA officially closed the 30-X-60-ft. full-scale wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in late October after 64 years of operation. The tunnel remained the world's largest until 1945. In the 1930s it was used chiefly to explore stability and...
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