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I talked with one of the crew dismantling this tank. They took down the other large tank which I have a GigaPan of, plus the little tank near this one. I liked the little tank. In a landscape of giant vacuum tanks, oversized wind tunnels, pipes erupting from the ground like spring bulbs, the small tank was cute. ...
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Cyrogenic separation tower and auxiliary equipment building from the Ames 3.5-foot hypersonic wind tunnel. For more notes see gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12013 The vertical banding is because I took this at sunset.
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gigapan user Dogshrink found a NASA link describing the wind tunnels here: history.nasa.gov/SP-440/ch6-15.htm
The first diagram is of the "Ames 3.5-foot hypersonic wind tunnel" and shows the four large vacuum tanks which are just to the left of this, and these high pressure tanks.
Straight back are two m...-
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deconstructing a vacuum tank.
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"So what is in those tanks?" I asked two different people that question, and got the same response. "Nothing" They were literally correct. To several significant decimal places these tanks contain nothing. This represents the majority of the nation's strategic vacuum reserve. vacuum tanks at NASA - AMES...
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