I’ve been mesmerized by enough footage of smoke streaming across a car’s surface to know that a wind tunnel technician is one of the cooler jobs in the automotive field—perhaps second only to crash ...

Gadget-maker Fun-Tech-Lab has just the thing for model car lovers: a scale wind tunnel that lets you visualize the airflow around toy cars just like they are tested in professional wind tunnels. If ...

Click to open image viewer. On May 27, 1931, a massive new wind tunnel began operating at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now the Langley Research Center) in Hampton, Virginia.