Freightliner LLC has opened North America’s only full-scale wind tunnel built solely for testing heavy and medium-duty trucks. The 12,000-square-foot facility, located near the company’s Portland, Ore ...

HAMPTON — The winds of the Full-Scale Tunnel at Langley Air Force Base tested some of the iconic symbols of American flight and exploration: World War II fighters, the F-16 and the Mercury space ...

General Motors is now putting to use a new 35,000-sq.-ft. “reduced scale” wind tunnel for aerodynamic tests using clay models that are up to 40% of the size of a normal vehicle. Why? Because such ...

Model cars are one of the fundamental building blocks of a budding car enthusiast. Nearly everyone who shares the obsession also had (and possibly still has) a sprawling collection of die-cast model ...

When work on the world’s first full-scale wind tunnel got underway at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in January 1930, some people saw the giant, $1 million project as just another case of ...