Boeing Maps Out Wind-Tunnel Testing for 7E7

Staff May 31, 2004

When Boeing designed the 767 it put 50-60 wings through wind tunnels in tests that were essential in shaping the aircraft's design. But thanks to improved computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Boeing will use fewer than a dozen wing designs as it conducts the second phase of its 7E7 wind-tunnel...

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