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Transonic Wind Tunnel testing at Sandia Laboratories
Transonic Wind Tunnel testing at Sandia Laboratories
Transonic Wind Tunnel testing at Sandia Laboratories

Transonic Wind Tunnel testing at Sandia Laboratories

Dateca. 1952
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (19 × 23.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.006
DescriptionAn employee of Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, works with the transonic wind tunnel to test a scale model of a rocket. He is testing static force, pressure, and dynamic stability. The employee is wearing a white shirt and writing on a clipboard as he looks through a window into the wind tunnel, where a small rocket is being tested.
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    Blast Tunnel Structure
    Greg MacGregor
    negative 2003, printed 2022
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Basil K. "Bill" Laskar (April 18, 1921, Chicago, IL - January 13, 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
    ca. 1977
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Basil K. "Bill" Laskar (April 18, 1921, Chicago, IL - January 13, 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
    ca. 1978
    Testing a Turbine
    Associated Press
    December 5, 1974
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Basil K. "Bill" Laskar (April 18, 1921, Chicago, IL - January 13, 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
    ca. 1960
    Rocket Sled
    Walter McDonald
    1969