wind tunnel

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That geography turns the valley into a natural wind tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

Before these 2026 Games, the team have utilised a wind tunnel in a bid to improve performance.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

And they are starting work with a new wind tunnel and driver-in-the-loop simulator, about which Newey was pretty disparaging last spring.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Now that we’re through the wind tunnel of adolescence, I’m happy to share them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly