by flavio.noca | Oct 24, 2017 | Drones
It is in many ways the wind tunnel of the 2020s (Dr Thomas ROSENBAUM, Caltech President) The place is the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the setting is an open space in the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT), created in 1928 to house...
by flavio.noca | Oct 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
To: The Caltech Community From: Thomas F. Rosenbaum Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics Date: December 7, 2017 Re: 2017 Year-End Message What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end...
by flavio.noca | Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Prof Dario Floreano’s feathered drone came back into the wind tunnel after several aerodynamic sessions last year with Stefano Mintchev (his postdoc) and Matteo Di Luca (one of his apprentices). This year, the focus was on controls. The drone was made free to...
by flavio.noca | Oct 5, 2017 | Sports
Speed Skiers from the Spain national team and the Belgium national team were tested today at 250 km/h. In the picture, Ricardo Adarraga from the spanish national team has been testing his latest technologies and positions. His objective for the 2017-2018 season is to...
by flavio.noca | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday October 2, 2017, we were in the historical ETH Zürich wind tunnel (built by legendary and first swiss aerodynamicist, Prof Jakob Ackeret, who also built the first ever closed circuit supersonic wind tunnel and introduced the Mach number). Tests were...
