Having trouble sleeping so here's a data sci nerd story for you all.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
There are, to my knowledge, only two functional transonic dynamics wind tunnels in the world, one at Calspan, and the TDT at NASA Langley.
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Supersonic tunnels are far easier to operate. Transonic is much, much harder. (The trans is always annoying lolol).
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A dynamics tunnel requires more than blow-down designs. And the tunnels are so complex tbat non-rigid models are a no-no. If one breaks...
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So most of the aerospace research is done at Langley's TDT. For an operating cost of about $270,000/hr, iirc.
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A while back, I got a chance to play with some data pulled off a test done there. It was for the F-35 tail empennage.
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The tests cost in the eight figures to run. The resulting dataset was nothing more than an Excel file.
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So when you're complaining about hashtag horribleness with some cloud based database service or something...
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Just remember that the US government dropped $10+ million to acquire some data and then shoved it unorganized into a .xls file.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
To study just one part of a fighter jet. And then they paid another $1.5 million for me to re-analyze the data... to yield the same result.
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