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Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel
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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1936/00/00 NACA Architect Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel is built, funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and completed for a cost of $266,000
1937/10/08 The cast aluminum ally multi-bladed drive fan twists and breaks. This is the stimulus to change all wind tunnel propeller blades to wood, 1938 operations resumed.
2011/00/00 Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel is demolished

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Particulars for Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Aviation, Air-related
Area of Significance Engineering
Owner Federal
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Military
Level of Significance National
Historic Use Research facility
Area of Significance Science



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 85002798
Resource Type:
Owner: Federal
Architect: NACA
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Other, Engineering, Military, Science
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1950-1974
Significant Year: 1936, 1956
Historic Function: Education, Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Air-related, Research facility
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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