That approximately 20 meters high wobbling tower in the citizen of Berlin local part eagle yard is a technical monument from the aviation research. The windowless concrete building seems from the distance like an enormous Iglu.

The tower belonged today to the so-called aerodynamic park on the Campus of the Humboldt university and ranks among the ensemble of technical thinking marks of the aviation research in Berlin eagle yard of the 1930er years. The total area is part of the science and economic situation eagle yard WISTA, which developed since 1992 on a surface of approximately 420 hectares. Since 2005 communications carry between the max fount and for the Brook Taylor road the name to the wobbling tower.

The wobbling wind tunnel, which the German laboratory for aviation (DVL) had established between 1934 and 1936 at the former airfield Berlin Johannisthal, stands beside approximately 130 meters a also monument-protected long wind tunnel from the same years. The tower represented absolute technical innovation ", with which the dangerous condition of wobbling in the laboratory could be simulated for the first time with its establishment one ". The attempts helped for example to intercept and control leaderless to the earth "torkelnde "airplanes. Into a vertical, from bottom to top running air flow precision-manufactured models could be brought in such a way that the model always remained on height of the observation mechanism and could in its behavior by high-speed cameras be filmed. The possibility was the basis in such a way, "the speed of the air flow to adjust [] that it corresponded to the falling speed of the model. [...] The installations are today no longer present. "

See also

• German center for air and space travel

Sources, Related links

• Humboldt university, technical monuments - the quotations are taken from this representation; here also indication of resuming literature
• WISTA, to the Campus eagle yard
• WISTA, to the DVL

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