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Original – A volunteer being subjected to high wind speeds (a maximum of 457 miles per hour (735 km/h); local wind speeds along the subject's face reached 720 miles per hour (1,160 km/h)) at the Langley Research Center, under the guidance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and at the request of the US Navy. These 1946 tests were intended to measure the effects of bailing out of a high-speed aircraft on the human body. The tests showed that "Effects of the wind stream on clothing and gear were in many ways more pronounced than on the subject. Even at low speeds, loose clothing flapped and fluttered violently. The helmet and chin strap needed constant readjustment, and the helmet's seams began to tear during exposures to 400-mile-an-hour winds."
Reason
Very interesting video, not too long, well documented. Useful in several articles.
Articles in which this image appears
Human subject research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Wind tunnel
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others, maybe?
Creator
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Promoted File:National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics wind tests (1946).webm --Armbrust The Homunculus 05:13, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]