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Laboratories of Flight: Wind Tunnels

by NASA Langley Research Center.
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/aero/tunnel/tunnel_main.html
Wind tunnels play a major role in the design and development of virtually all aircraft flying today. Come take a tour and learn about their origins and how they work.
Here are two other sites containing wind tunnel simulations. The first is the The Java Virtual Wind Tunnel by David Y. Oh at the Computational Aerospace Sciences Laboratory, MIT and Wind Tunnels by SWE for K-12 education.

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