Boeing Archive Presents: Winds of Change
submitted by Lovely Lady
on 11/12/15
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Today the wind tunnel is a critical part of aerospace testing and development. But in the early 1900s there were less than a dozen wind tunnels in the world. In 1918 Bill Boeing made a strategic investment with the University of Washington; building a wind tunnel and aerodynamics testing facility that – to this day – has been used for testing numerous aircraft and educating generations of engineers.
