ALLLLRITE!!! AriLea I didn't know they even had a wind tunnel up here, or is that not "up here" where is that?
Well, where I first tested my 3wheeler was at U of Washington. they had an large, 40 or 50 inch single venturi tunnel. But Dr Seal figured out how to make a 30 inch dia closed loop tunnel at Western Wa.U. It was very nice to have a tunnel located on the Bellingham campus.
At first they had the tunnel at one location on campus, and when a new building was built, they moved the tunnel and the whole VRI to the basement. I saw it there when I visited for my daughter's graduation, a number of years ago. Dr Seal was retired by then, and has recently passed. Which is the reason I could locate that image. There is a rash of image sharing going on now. (I can post those on a different thread if you like or see th
e facebook page.
Interesting tiny point. Those latches came from the trash-bin when I was in the Air Force prior to that. I collected such junk, I like cool hardware, what can I say? So it may be Titain II missile parts, MAC or TAC aircraft parts, other military or just common hardware. But it was useful for that one application.
At this point, it seems the whole VRI program is now winding down, and may be eliminated altogether, although they don't say so
here at the official VRI page. Sad. So the tunnel may not have a future there much longer. Go see it while you can, and check out all the scale models built for testing. However, that tunnel is not very impressive to look at where I last saw it.
Any three wheeler models might have been my build. I left one or two, and sent a model of my Atlantric a few years ago. With limited space they may toss anything out at anytime. Given the program closure (if it does), maybe you can talk them into letting you take one. (don't quote me on that) :-)