The T3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel is a

hypersonic wind tunnel A hypersonic wind tunnel is designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section, thus simulating the typical flow features of this flow regime - including compression shocks and pronounced boundary layer effects, entropy layer an ...

of the

Institute for Advanced Studies The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

(IEAv) of the

Brazilian Air Force "Wings that protect the country" , colours = , colours_label = , march = Hino dos Aviadores , mascot = , anniversaries = 22 May (anniver ...

. The T3 is the largest hypersonic wind tunnel in

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

.Tunel de vento hipersônico T3 entra em fase de qualificação.
IEAv. Retrieved on 2011-01-18. . The tunnel is capable of producing airflow at speeds up to 25 times the speed of sound ( Mach 25). It was fully constructed by the IEAv with national technology. The tunnel is used by the

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and the

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in its advanced projects.

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