Lower Saxony Minister-President David McAllister inaugurates
wind tunnel The low-speed wind tunnel at Braunschweig On 2
December 2010, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum
für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) opened the world's most powerful
aero-acoustic wind tunnel in collaboration with German-Dutch
Wind Tunnels (Deutsch-Niederländische Windkanäle; DNW).
Scientists use wind tunnels to investigate the aero-acoustic
properties of objects such as aircraft engines and wings. Not
only is the Braunschweig wind tunnel one of the most powerful of
its kind, but also it is so versatile that it can be used for
cars as well as planes. This presents new possibilities for
recording and reducing sources of noise pollution. The Minister-
President of Lower Saxony, David McAllister, formally brought
the Braunschweig aero-acoustic test centre into operation.
"'Vision 2020', a German-led coordination network of partners
from 17 different countries, is promoting, among other things,
an initiative to reduce the noise of new c