Wind Tunnels news

L’ONERA a célébré les 40 ans de sa soufflerie subsonique F2, placée sous les signes de l’adaptabilité et de la performance.

Marie-José Martinez, Engineer-General Second Class, joined ONERA on May 3rd as Wind Tunnels director. She was previously director of the DGA propellant test centre. She succeeds Patrick Wagner, with whom she will be working closely until his retirement. A look back at a brilliant career with a predominant aeronautical and international focus.

Since October 2019, the Modane-Avrieux wind tunnels, one of ONERA's crown jewels, have a new director. Known and recognised throughout Europe, and indeed internationally, they have been the testing ground for some of the aeronautical industry's most celebrated creations, with the precision of these installations and the very high level of technical expertise of their personnel allowing concepts to be tested under optimal conditions.

The ONERA Fauga-Mauzac center celebrated the 40 years of the F1 wind tunnel on the 13th and 14th of October with local politicians, customers and partners as well as the employees and their families.

A large reference model (LRM) of 3.5m large-scale has been designed by our teams. This model is now available for test and technique developments.  

A low-drag natural laminar flow wing for a future regional aircraft has been tested by ATR partner Leonardo and French  research agency ONERA. The large-scale model was evaluated in ONERA’s S1MA transonic wind tunnel.

The Mach number test envelope of the ONERA S2MA transonic and supersonic wind tunnel will soon be continuous up to Mach number 3,1.

The offer of the ONERA wind tunnel division is shown in this film made during tests performed for the Italian aircraft manufacturer Piaggio. From model manufacturing to wind tunnel testing, we introduce our sites at Lille, Fauga-Mauzac, Modane, and its experienced teams.

The new Mach number regulation at S1MA, sponsored by the European FP7-ESWIRP project, implements two complementary regulation components.