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The opening of the new facility occurs
amid an ongoing push by the U.S. military
to develop hypersonic weapons and
technologies. In December, for example,
DoD published an update highlighting
the completion of an end-to-end flight
test of a conventional hypersonic missile
from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,
Florida. The test was part of an
ongoing collaboration between the U.S.
Army and Navy to develop and field
hypersonic missiles, known as the Common
Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB).
In November, the Joint Hypersonics
Transition Office (JHTO) concluded its
" Hypersonic Accelerated Manufactured
Prototype Demonstration " challenge by
issuing awards to Castelion Corporation
and Specter Aerospace to produce novel
new hypersonic prototypes.
The new Large Mach 10 Quiet Wind
Tunnel was designed by Thomas Corke,
Notre Dame's Clark Equipment Professor
of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
along with doctoral students
Joseph Heston and Jacob Caldwell.
Check out our question and answer
session with Corke below, where he provides
Aerospace & Defense Technology
(A&DT) with an understanding of some
of the unique design, manufacturing
and materials related challenges that the
new facility could help the industry
resolve in the quest to develop hypersonic
flight vehicles of the future.
Aerospace & Defense Technology
(A&DT): What are some of the main
elements of the facility that allows it
to function as a " quiet " wind tunnel?
Thomas Corke: The concept of " quiet "
tunnels comes from the observations in
the 1980s at NASA Langley that there were
differences in the location of turbulence
The Large Mach 10 Quiet Wind Tunnel was designed
by Thomas Corke, Notre Dame's Clark
Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering, pictured here. (Image: University of
Notre Dame)
onset in the boundary layers at supersonic
Mach numbers over test articles between
wind tunnel tests and flight tests. These differences
were attributed to disturbances in
the wind tunnel that were not present in
flight. This led NASA Langley to design a
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