{"id":146124,"date":"2022-09-11T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chinas-record-breaking-wind-tunnel-simulates-flight-conditions-33-times-the-speed-of-sound"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:22:35","slug":"chinas-record-breaking-wind-tunnel-simulates-flight-conditions-33-times-the-speed-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chinas-record-breaking-wind-tunnel-simulates-flight-conditions-33-times-the-speed-of-sound","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s record-breaking wind tunnel simulates flight conditions 33 times the speed of sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-record-breaking-wind-tunnel-simulates-flight-conditions-33-times-the-speed-of-sound2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The testing tube is roughly twice as large as comparable facilities in the West, with a diameter of 80cm (2.6 ft).<\/p>\n<p>The most giant free-piston-powered shock tunnel in the world is already operational in southwest China. It enables low-cost, excellent wind tunnel tests for hypersonic research.<\/p>\n<p>The facility can simulate severe flight conditions at speeds ranging from 2.5 to 11.5 kilometers per second (1.55\u22127.14 miles per second), or more than 33 times the speed of sound, according to a report published by South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The testing tube is roughly twice as large as comparable facilities in the West, with a diameter of 80cm (2.6 ft). The most giant free-piston-powered shock tunnel in the world is already operational in southwest China. It enables low-cost, excellent wind tunnel tests for hypersonic research. The facility can simulate severe flight conditions at speeds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}