21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-3.11.3

COMMEMORATING TEN YEARS OPERATION OF THE INDONESIAN LOW SPEED TUNNEL (ILST)

Sakya A. E., Wiriadidjaja S., Adibroto A.
AGVL, AAAT, Indonesia

Keywords: indonesian low speed tunnel (ilst)

The Indonesian Low Speed Tunnel (ILST) commissioned in 1987 is a closed circuit one with a working test section of4 x 3 m2 and 10 m in length which is a combined of two: front and rear test sections. The upstream part has a length of 5. 75 and the downstream one is 4.25 m In total four arrangements can be made, and it is moveable on a transverse rails. The tunnel has a nominal speed of110 mps. The paper reviews the ILST operations in the last 10 years including several in house and cooperative research activities in conjunction with national and international research institutes, aircraft industries as well as university like IPTN, Fokker, BOEING. NLR-the Netherlands. NAL-Japan, TU Delft have also been conducted.

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