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NASA Tests Special Paint in Wind Tunnel

Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center conducted a new kind of test. They used a special coating called unsteady pressure sensitive paint. This was the first test on a large, freely moving model in a low-oxygen setting. The team painted a standard test object, which is called the Benchmark Supercritical Wing. They put this model inside the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.…

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