The University of Bristol is home to several highly instrumented propeller test rigs, which can be used in the UoB wind tunnel facilities, including the AAWT, NPWT and 7x5 wind tunnels for studying ...

In the high-pressure combustion chamber test rig (HBK-S), complex and multi-stage combustion chamber systems of the next generation can be analysed under conditions typical of gas turbines, i.e. at ...

In the High Pressure Optical Test Rig (HiPOT), burners can be operated under typical gas turbine conditions and combustion phenomena can be analysed in detail, i.e. at high pressure, high turbulence ...

Now, building on many of the aspects it discussed in those videos, most notably the ‘Heart of Joy’ centralised control unit, BMW has publicly unveiled what it is calling its new high-performance test ...

The rig features, in particular, radio-technical simulators in order to test navigation, landing and communications systems – something which was not included on the rig for the Yakovlev SJ-100.