Wind Tunnel Gets eXtreme

August 18th, 2007

A newly-formed group of investors has joined together to design and construct a state-of-the-art customer wind tunnel project near Charlotte, N.C., the heart of NASCAR country, known as Wind Tunnel eXtreme. This project will help provide teams from all motorsports disciplines an “unfair advantage” (according to the company, anwyay) in aerodynamic development. The core of this program will be the most advanced automotive wind tunnel in the world, utilizing technology that is not available today even to Formula 1 teams.

Wind Tunnel eXtreme was created to address the scarcity of high-tech wind tunnel time in the United States. Slated to open in the third quarter of 2009, it will be a full-scale, world-class facility available to customers on a membership basis. According to the company, more than 50 percent of available memberships in WTX have already been sold.

It will purportedly be the world’s only wind tunnel specifically designed for multiple-car testing. It will have full-scale testing capability, reach wind and road speeds of up to 180-mph (80 m/s), and feature best-in-class adaptive wall wind tunnel technology.

Entry Filed under: Aerodynamics, Test Labs