Casual Friday — flow studies
A really mesmerizing collection of air tunnel flow visualization video, set to the music of Yo La Tengo:
It’s a beautiful way to re-purpose and re-publish some old black and white video.
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Philds wrote,
A lot of delta wings in that movie. The images seem to be from like late 40’s early 50’s. I wonder if the stats those models produced were used in the creation of the Delta and Sea Darts.
That would be a nice tie in with a previous post.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 18:37 EDT
Sam Wise wrote,
Hard to say, unfortunately. I wish the folks that compiled the old video & the music for the YouTube “compilation” had pointed (somehow) to the original videos. But yes, I thought it was nicely connected to Tuesday’s post.
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 22:51 EDT