Areba,
@william quite on the contrary, there are hundreds if not thousands of wind tunnels in the states, Any engineering university worth its name, and with an effective R & D program needs at least a wind tunnel, and its not as rocket sciency as it seems. Just a big fan and lots of sensors, and a smoke signal for the kicks. Without a wind tunnel, performance cars, boats, wind turbines, aeroplanes and many other moving parts cannot be designed to effective performance.
Opps, yes I google and I was totally wrong. There is a number of tunnels in USA, the biggest one being NASA. That being said, I can explain my misunderstanding. I tend to read a lot about airplane manufacturing and remembered reading that Boeing does some of their wind tunnel test in Europe. That is actually correct. The dreamliner (787) and 777 had part of their wind tunnel in Europe (Check wikipedia and a bit of google). So there is clearly something lacking in the USA tunnels William
Onto answering you., How about you describe what you intend to achieve, Maybe software like Pro Engineer and simulation based apps may be able to give at least theoretical performance data enough to burn a few grand doing the concepts for real world testing... ama?
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM, William Muriithi < william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
Good people, Might there be a "wind tunnel" somewhere in .ke?
Very expensive. Even USA shut down their wind tunnel. Boeing does their wind tunnel test in Europe now. The fact a country with an air-plane manufacturing sector could not keep their tunnel going just tell you how unlikely most of the other countries would entertain such an idea
William
By wind tunnel I mean a device with which one can test the aerodynamic properties of body kits, spoilers, splitters, diffusers etc on cars...