A good tunnel is an asset. The worlds best are privately run.
“What we’re going to do with this facility is literally change the world,” said NASA Langley Research Center Director Clayton Turner. Can we just cut out the hyperbole aimed at the technical ignoramuses who run the federal government? And stop using buzz words like “sustainable” to appear the enviro extremists. I’ve visited numerous wind tunnels in my 40+ year engineering career. The most advanced was the private tunnel in Switzerland built by Sauber for Motorsports.