August 26th, 2019, Published in Uncategorised articles

Earlier this year, the CSIR in Pretoria hired a Rand-Air compressor for five weeks to provide auxiliary airflow for its Medium Speed Wind Tunnel (MSWT), one of seven CSIR wind tunnels  used to provide engineering test, measurement and evaluation foundations to aerodynamic designs For the aeronautics industry. The wind tunnels are generally used to measure airframe aerodynamic performance in a controlled, simulated flight environment. The object tested in this environment can be anything on which the movement of air exerts force. This can be anything from a supermarket trolley in the Cape winds to a supersonic missile. Data collected at the facilities is used for airframe characterisation and to populate complex modelling and simulation environments for broader mission simulation predictions and training.

Contact Byrone Thorne, Rand-Air, Tel 011 345-0700, byrone.thorne@randair.com

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