The Oran W. Nicks Low Speed Wind Tunnel has had a great variety of customers over the years. From bikes, to jets, to 18 wheelers, to golf clubs, to city layouts, the LSWT has seen it all. Browse through the photo gallery to get a taste of the broad scope of the LSWT capabilities.

• NASA WB57

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  Tested by NASA in October of 2014 to verify CFD

  

• NASA Liquid Flyback Booster

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  A concept tested by NASA in 1994 to allow the rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle to fly back to earth and be reused. The model is on display at the LSWT today.

  

• TAMU FSAE

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  The Texas A&M FSAE team testing their competition car with driver in 2015.

  

• NASA X38

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• Adams Golf

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• Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser

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  Testing Sierra Nevada's version of a next generation space craft

  

• Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser

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• Lance Armstrong

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• NASA Mighty Eagle Lander

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  Developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, designed to land on the moon

  

• Cobb Cycling/ Trishop

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  A regular customer at the LSWT, John Cobb from Cobb Cycling is using smoke for flow visualization on a rider sponsored by Trishop.

  

• Winzen International

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  Tested in 1994, a high altitude balloon

  

• Trishop

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  Another cyclist sponsored by Trishop with smoke

  

• NASA Space Shuttle

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  In the 1980s, NASA came to the LSWT extensively. Here they are testing the crew escape system on the Space Shuttle.

  

• Sandia Lab

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  A study on the aerodynamics of the outer shape of a semi-truck in 1995.

  

• Bill Bell - The Old Iron Man

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• Federal Signal

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  A police light bar being test on top of a Chevy Impala roof in 2015.

  

• Student Car Project

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