page_title: Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (Mountain View, California)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (Mountain View, California) / History
caption_attribution_description: Workers working on the diffuser and contraction vanes in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, USA
context_page_description: The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, located at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California, United States, is a research facility used extensively to design and test new generations of aircraft, both commercial and military, as well as NASA space vehicles, including the Space Shuttle. The facility was completed in 1955 and is one of five facilities created after the 1949 Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act supporting aeronautics research.
context_section_description: The American West Coast aircraft industry quickly capitalized on the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Complex. The famed Boeing fleet of commercial transports and the Douglas DC-8, DC-9, and DC-10 were all tested here; as well as military aircraft such as the F-111 fighter, the C-5A Galaxy transport and the B-1 Lancer bomber. In addition to aircraft, in the 1960s and 1970s all NASA manned space vehicles including the Space Shuttle and SLS have been tested in the Ames Unitary Plan Wind tunnel complex.
caption: Crew working on the diffuser and contraction vanes, 1996
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