NASA wind tunnel simulates lightning, rain, ice for radome tests

Test engineers at NASA's Lewis Research Center have simulated rain, ice and lightning all at once in a wind tunnel to study improvements in aircraft nose radomes. In tests at the Icing Research Tunnel at Lewis, a new type of radome diverter was subjected to simulated lightning generated by a 500...

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