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Old 15th September 2009 | 17:52
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FlightTester
 
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To get the cold soak elements (without flight) covered you could try...
The McKinley Climatic Lab facility at Eglin AFB. We use them for hot and cold weather testing, where we don't have a requirement to fly immediately after the soak. Running engines, APU's etc in the chamber is possible up to TOP.

If we need to carry out a cold soak followed immediately by a flight, we generally resort to the Frobisher, Resolute Bay, Iqaluit option.

http://www.aiaa.org/tc/gt/facility_d...imatic2008.pdf

Edit: The chamber also has the capibility to generate snow and ice for accretion testing.
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