The Langley facility has been subjecting planes to wind tunnel testing for decades and is now run by the College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. It went into service in May 1931, built in 15 months for $900,000, when it was "by far the largest wind tunnel ever built," and it remains one of the four largest in the world, according to the LFST Web site. This photo from September 1945 shows a World War II fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang.
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