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| | Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, Santa Clara County, California -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Douglas FD-1, 1956, tested at Ames Research Center, where the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel tested America's new generation of aircraft |
 | | The famed Boeing fleet of commercial transports and the Douglas DC-8, DC-9, and DC-10 were all tested here; as well as military aircraft such as the F-111 fighter, the C-5A transport and the B-1 bomber. |
 | | In addition to aircraft, in the 1960s and 1970s almost all NASA manned space vehicles including the Space Shuttle were tested in the Ames Unitary Plan Wind tunnel complex. |
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