# @af_academy on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxGuNSttiHi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8616975-af-academy-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/66afbcc3d6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-09-12T20:23:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Air Force Academy (@af_academy) — https://gondola.cc/af_academy

## Caption

#Youracademy cadets are on “a new frontier” of hypersonic flight research through wind-tunnel testing in the Department of Aeronautics. Cadets perform hypersonic testing primarily in two high-speed wind tunnels:

Hypersonic Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube
 - A 2-ft diameter, 100-foot long tunnel that can test up to six times the speed of sound, showing how hypersonic shapes warm from the high-speed flow

Trisonic Wind Tunnel
 -A 1-ft diameter tunnel that tests aircraft and missile shapes at transonic and supersonic speeds

Click link in bio to read more about our Aero wind tunnels.

#research #innovation #leadersofcharacter #futurefight #warfighterscholars

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warfighterscholars, research, leadersofcharacter, innovation, youracademy, futurefight

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