China's transonic wind tunnel achieves milestone

摘要

China's FL-62 large-scale transonic wind tunnel has successfully passed a major milestone, according to a post on the Aviation Industry Corporation of China's (AVIC's) official Weibo account. In a 1 April test the tunnel's 80 MW compressor was run at full power and achieved its design performance, marking a notable success for the domestically built 6 m axial compressor. Information on the design of the wind tunnel, which has been built at AVIC's Aerodynamics Research Institute (ARI) in Shenyang, was made public in October 2018. The tunnel has been configured as a continuous loop, with a test chamber that can accommodate models up to 2.4×2.4 m and simulate velocities between Mach 0.3 and 1.6.