{"id":25230220,"date":"2026-09-28T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=25230220"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:50:16","slug":"nasa-wind-tunnels-langley-full-scale-ames-40x80-m2-f1-avrocar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/nasa-wind-tunnels-langley-full-scale-ames-40x80-m2-f1-avrocar\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Fans and a Flying Bathtub: Inside NASA&rsquo;s Giant Wind Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Most wind tunnels test models. For most of the 20th century, American aeronautical engineers had two tunnels big enough to swallow the real thing: a propeller-driven hangar at Langley, Virginia, and an even larger one at Moffett Field in California. Fighters, flying saucers, lifting bodies and spacecraft all went inside, bolted to struts, while fans the size of houses blew a gale over them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This is the story of those two machines, and of some of the strangest things ever put in front of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #1a1a1a;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px\"><li><strong>Langley Full-Scale Tunnel:<\/strong> Dedicated 27 May 1931; 30 by 60 ft test section; two 35 ft 5 in propellers, each driven by a 4,000 hp motor; 25 to 118 mph<\/li><li><strong>Its last test:<\/strong> Boeing X-48 blended-wing-body demonstrator, 4 September 2009; demolished 2010 to 2011<\/li><li><strong>Ames 40- by 80-foot tunnel:<\/strong> Operating from June 1944; six 40 ft fans, originally 6,000 hp each<\/li><li><strong>Ames 80- by 120-foot tunnel:<\/strong> Added in the 1980s rebuild and dedicated in December 1987; the world&rsquo;s largest wind tunnel test section<\/li><li><strong>Today&rsquo;s power:<\/strong> Six 22,500 hp motors; up to 345 mph in the 40 by 80, 115 mph in the 80 by 120<\/li><li><strong>Operator now:<\/strong> US Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex, since NASA closed the complex in 2003<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/nasa-ames-40x80-wind-tunnel-six-fans-1944.jpg\" alt=\"The six 40-foot-diameter fans of the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel in 1944, with a person standing between them for scale\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The six 40-foot fans of the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel on 9 June 1944, the month it began operating. Each was driven by a 6,000-horsepower motor. Photo: NACA\/NASA (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Langley&rsquo;s Full-Scale Tunnel<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA&rsquo;s predecessor, ran its first wind tunnel at Langley in 1920. Within a decade its engineers wanted something far more ambitious: a tunnel big enough to test a complete aeroplane rather than a scale model, so that the awkward corrections between model and full size simply disappeared.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Construction began in the spring of 1930 under NACA engineer Smith J. DeFrance. The tunnel was dedicated on 27 May 1931, the largest wind tunnel in the world. Its open test section measured 30 by 60 feet, and two propellers, each 35 feet 5 inches across and driven by a 4,000-horsepower electric motor, pulled air through it at between 25 and 118 mph. The building alone was 434 feet long.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/langley-full-scale-tunnel-twin-propellers.jpg\" alt=\"The two giant four-blade propellers of the NACA Langley Full-Scale Tunnel in their circular ducts\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The twin 35-foot propellers of the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel, each driven by a 4,000-horsepower motor. Photo: Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The first aircraft in, on dedication day, was a Vought O3U-1 Corsair II biplane. The tunnel made its reputation in 1938, when a Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo went in for a &ldquo;drag clean-up&rdquo;: engineers found and removed so many small sources of drag that the fighter gained 31 mph. Within 18 months, 18 more aircraft had been through the same process. Before and during the Second World War, almost every major American high-performance fighter passed through it, along with oddities such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/vought-v-173-flying-pancake-xf5u\/\">Vought V-173 &ldquo;Flying Pancake&rdquo;<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In March 1943 it hosted perhaps its most secret visitor, a captured Japanese Mitsubishi Zero, rolled straight off Langley Field and into the tunnel on its way to further testing at Wright Field.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;Nowhere else could a whole enemy airplane be flown into Langley Air Field on its way to Wright Field, rolled off the runway, spirited into the wind tunnel, tested in such an impromptu manner under the veil of the strictest secrecy.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>John Anderson<\/strong>, National Air and Space Museum, on the secret 1943 Zero tests<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Later work ranged from Mercury capsules to the British P.1127, forerunner of the Harrier, and an investigation into a 1968 accident involving the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle. NASA closed the tunnel in 1995, but Old Dominion University took it over the following year and ran it for industry and students, including car and truck testing. The last test, on 4 September 2009, was of the Boeing X-48 blended-wing-body demonstrator. The building was demolished in 2010 and 2011. One of its two giant fans is now displayed in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ames: Six Fans and a Wall of Wind<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>By the late 1930s the NACA wanted a second full-scale facility on the West Coast, and a bigger one. At its new Ames laboratory at Moffett Field, California, it built a tunnel with a 40- by 80-foot test section, powered by six 40-foot fans. It began operating in June 1944. With steel rationed for the war effort, the builders used cement-based transite siding for the structure and laminated spruce for the fan blades.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Each fan was driven by a 6,000-horsepower electric motor. NASA&rsquo;s own caption for the 1944 photograph notes that the airflow, at up to 230 mph, was still a tornado-force wind. Over the following decades the tunnel took in the A-26 Invader, the F-84 Thunderjet, the F-86 Sabre and later the F-14 Tomcat, the AV-8B Harrier II, the V-22 Osprey and a scale model of the Space Shuttle, as well as parachutes for the Apollo programme.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/avrocar-vz-9-ames-40x80-wind-tunnel-1961.jpg\" alt=\"The disc-shaped Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar on struts inside the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar on struts in the Ames 40- by 80-foot tunnel, 25 January 1961. Photo: NASA (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Some of the most photographed tests were of machines that looked as if they should never fly. In January 1961 the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/avrocar-vz-9-pentagon-flying-saucer-coanda-vtol-cancelled-1961\/\">Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar<\/a>, a US Army and Air Force-funded flying saucer, sat on struts in the 40 by 80 while engineers studied the stability and control problems that kept it from ever flying much higher than a few feet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Flying Bathtub<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In 1963 the tunnel took in the M2-F1, a wingless lifting body built at NASA&rsquo;s Flight Research Center at Edwards with a plywood shell over a tubular steel frame. Its shape earned it the nickname &ldquo;the flying bathtub&rdquo;. The idea was to test whether a returning spacecraft could fly and land using lift from its body alone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After the first ground-tow attempts behind a souped-up Pontiac convertible on Rogers Dry Lake in March 1963, the M2-F1 was taken to Ames for full-scale tunnel runs, with research pilot Milt Thompson and engineers working its control surfaces during the tests. The programme went on to make more than 400 car tows and 77 aircraft-towed flights, and paved the way for the heavier lifting bodies, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/m2-f2-lifting-body-six-million-dollar-man-crash\/\">M2-F2<\/a>, and ultimately for the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"max-width:520px;margin:0 auto 24px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/m2-f1-flying-bathtub-ames-40x80-wind-tunnel.jpg\" alt=\"The white M2-F1 lifting body mounted on struts in the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel with a man in a NASA coat standing beside it\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The M2-F1 &ldquo;flying bathtub&rdquo; mounted in the Ames 40- by 80-foot tunnel in 1963. Photo: NASA (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6dkNDI1cUs\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The World&rsquo;s Largest Wind Tunnel<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In the 1980s NASA rebuilt the Ames tunnel. The six fans were given new 22,500-horsepower motors, pushing the 40 by 80 section to 345 mph, and a second, even larger test section was added: 80 by 120 feet, fed through an intake NASA compares to a football field standing on its edge. The combined facility was dedicated as the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex on 11 December 1987. Its 80- by 120-foot section, capable of 115 mph, is the largest wind tunnel test section in the world and big enough for a full-size Boeing 737.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/nasa-ames-national-full-scale-aerodynamics-complex-aerial-1984.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of the NASA Ames wind tunnel complex with the giant white intake of the 80- by 120-foot tunnel under construction\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex under construction in November 1984: the white intake of the new 80- by 120-foot section attached to the original 40- by 80-foot tunnel. Photo: NASA (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Quo5_LroLy8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>NASA closed the complex in 2003. The US Air Force stepped in, its Arnold Engineering Development Complex took over management in 2006, and the tunnels were back in operation in 2007. They have since tested everything from rotorcraft to the parachute for NASA&rsquo;s Mars Science Laboratory, a canopy more than 165 feet long. In 2024 the 40 by 80 turned 80.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;The 80th anniversary of the 40x80 wind tunnel is a real tribute to the brilliant men and women who recognized the need and designed and built this amazing tool.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Joe Sacco<\/strong>, NFAC deputy director, on the tunnel&rsquo;s 80th anniversary<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkhqkSwRWmk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The People in the Tunnels<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The tunnels were built and run by thousands of engineers, technicians and &ldquo;computers&rdquo;, many of them women. At Langley, Mary Jackson worked in the 4- by 4-foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel and in 1958 became NASA&rsquo;s first Black female engineer. Her story, told in the book and film <em>Hidden Figures<\/em>, is one reason these tunnels are remembered as much for the people inside them as for the machines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Computational fluid dynamics has taken over much of the work since, and several historic tunnels are gone. But as our explainer on <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/what-happens-inside-wind-tunnel-aviation-testing\/\">what happens inside a wind tunnel<\/a> sets out, nothing has yet fully replaced putting the real thing in front of a real wind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the largest wind tunnel in the world?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The largest wind tunnel in the world is the 80- by 120-foot test section of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Dedicated in 1987, it can reach 115 mph and is large enough to hold a full-size Boeing 737. Since 2006 the complex has been managed by the US Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How big are the fans in the NASA Ames wind tunnel?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel is driven by six fans, each 40 feet in diameter. When the tunnel opened in June 1944 each fan had a 6,000-horsepower motor; since the 1980s rebuild each is driven by a 22,500-horsepower motor, giving up to 345 mph in the 40 by 80 section.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Langley Full-Scale Tunnel was a NACA and later NASA wind tunnel in Hampton, Virginia, dedicated on 27 May 1931. Its 30- by 60-foot test section, driven by two 35-foot propellers with 4,000-horsepower motors, could test complete aircraft at up to 118 mph. It ran until 2009 and was demolished in 2010 and 2011.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was the M2-F1 called the flying bathtub?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The M2-F1 was a wingless lifting body built by NASA in 1963 with a plywood shell over a steel frame, and its tub-like shape earned it the nickname the flying bathtub. It was tested full-scale in the Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel and then flown after being towed aloft, proving that a wingless craft could glide and land.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was the Avrocar tested in a wind tunnel?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, a disc-shaped vertical take-off craft funded by the US Army and Air Force, was tested on struts in the NASA Ames 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel in 1960 and 1961. The tests examined the stability and control problems that kept it from flying more than a few feet above the ground.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel still standing?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. NASA closed the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel in 1995, Old Dominion University operated it from 1996 until its last test in September 2009, and the building was demolished in 2010 and 2011. One of its two giant fans is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the largest wind tunnel in the world?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The largest wind tunnel in the world is the 80- by 120-foot test section of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Dedicated in 1987, it can reach 115 mph and is large enough to hold a full-size Boeing 737. 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One of its two giant fans is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.\"}}]}<\/script><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:28px\">Sources: NASA History Office, &ldquo;30 x 60-Foot Full Scale Tunnel (Building 643)&rdquo;; National Air and Space Museum, &ldquo;The NACA\/NASA Full-Scale Wind Tunnel&rdquo; (John Anderson, 2015); NASA Ames, &ldquo;Testing on the Ground Before You Fly&rdquo;; Arnold Air Force Base, &ldquo;NFAC marks 80th anniversary of 40- by 80-foot tunnel&rdquo;; NASA, &ldquo;Where Are They Now: M2-F1 Lifting Body&rdquo;; NASA image archives and Historic American Engineering Record via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/avrocar-vz-9-pentagon-flying-saucer-coanda-vtol-cancelled-1961\/\">The Avrocar: When the Pentagon Built a Flying Saucer<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/vought-v-173-flying-pancake-xf5u\/\">The Flying Pancake That Refused to Stall<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/m2-f2-lifting-body-six-million-dollar-man-crash\/\">The Crash You&#8217;ve Seen a Hundred Times<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two NASA wind tunnels were big enough to swallow real aircraft: Langley&rsquo;s propeller-driven Full-Scale Tunnel and the Ames 40 by 80. 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