From the June 6, 1931, issue
By Science News
LARGEST WIND TUNNEL AND TOWING CHANNEL FINISHED
Aeronautic research took a stride forward when two outstanding pieces of apparatus for testing and improving aircraft–both the largest of their kind in the world–were officially put in operation last week by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at its Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Langley Field, Va.
One is a wind tunnel big enough to hold full-sized airplanes between its yawning jaws. The other is a seaplane towing channel nearly half a mile long through which a model of a boat hull can be pulled as fast as a mile a minute.