Tunnel Managers Forum

Date:

15th November 2023

Location:

Airbus

Organisation:

NWTF

Host(s):

Paul White, Airbus

Hosts: Paul White, Airbus, Ian Smith, QinetiQ and Chetan Jagadeesh, City University.

Aims:
• Build networked community of industry and academic wind tunnel managers.
• Host twice yearly visits to industry and academic wind tunnel facilities across the UK.
• Support Q&A sessions to solve wind tunnel problems.
• Develop closer links to the SATA & STAI meetings & international wind tunnel community.

Location: This first meeting took place on the 15th of November at Airbus, Filton.

Agenda:
10.30 Tea and coffee (including welcome and aims for Tunnel Managers forum)
10.45 Short introductions to each facility, including introduction to representatives present (5 mins per facility)
12.00 Tour of the Airbus wind tunnel, including descriptions of test capabilities, projects, test set-up
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Q&A session on wind tunnel operation, challenges or any other topics of participant interest
14.55 Final remarks and plan for next meeting
15.00 Meeting finish

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