{"id":14514,"date":"2003-10-29T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/29\/uss-enterprise-wind-tunnel-test\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T12:31:00","slug":"uss-enterprise-wind-tunnel-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/29\/uss-enterprise-wind-tunnel-test\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.S. Enterprise &#8220;Wind Tunnel&#8221; Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uq.edu.au\/lp\/lasdiag\/enterp.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Enterprise laser test\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/enterprise_mach5lasertest.jpg\" \/><\/a>Yes, you read that right, although possibly not in the way you think.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uq.edu.au\/lp\/lasdiag\/lasdiag.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">University of Queensland Laser Diagnostics Department<\/a> has undertaken the highly scientific endeavour of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uq.edu.au\/lp\/lasdiag\/enterp.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;wind tunnel&rdquo; testing the <i>NCC-1701D U.S.S. Enterprise<\/i><\/a> from the newest incarnation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upn.com\/shows\/enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Enterprise<\/i><\/a>, in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uq.edu.au\/lp\/lasdiag\/tunnel.html#X2\" target=\"_blank\">super-orbital expansion tube<\/a> to a simulated speed of Mach 5.  For the inevitable orgiastic frenzy of geek\/Trekkie comments, nitpicks, and delusional discourses, you must check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/10\/28\/1552246&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=186&amp;tid=214\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot forum on this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I should point out that the tests are not made in a conventional wind tunnel, but instead employ &ldquo;laser-based measurement techniques to a range<br \/>\n<br \/>of high temperature and\/or high velocity environments.&rdquo;  Also, I&rsquo;d like to think that any criticisms I might have are based purely on my experience as an aerospace engineer, which I suppose makes me only marginally less geeky than the rest of them&hellip; :-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106743071447843891?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right, although possibly not in the way you think. The University of Queensland Laser Diagnostics Department has undertaken the highly scientific endeavour of &ldquo;wind tunnel&rdquo; testing the NCC-1701D U.S.S. Enterprise from the newest incarnation of Star Trek, Enterprise, in its super-orbital expansion tube to a simulated speed of Mach 5. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/29\/uss-enterprise-wind-tunnel-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S.S. Enterprise &#8220;Wind Tunnel&#8221; Test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}