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Schulman’s Palace Theatre presents Stage Center’s production Greater Tuna By Joston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard Jan. 23-35 and Jan. 30-Feb. 1 8:00 p.m. For Ticket information call: 693-0050 Meet the authors, cast crew Gotta Dance ? Dance Arts Society will have a general meeting on T uesday January 28 at 7:30 in 268 East Kyle Everyone Welcome! AEROSPACE ENGINERRING GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Major areas of graduate study and research (M.S. & Ph.D.): Aerodynamics Aeroelasticity Combustion Computational Fluid Dynamics Computer-Aided Design Controls, Flight Mechanics & Optimization Propulsion Structural Dynamics Structures - Composites Individual Tuition & Fees are $1,564 per calendar year. Total Financial aid Per calendar year: $13,000 + tuition & fees $15,000 $9,000/$13,500 Center of Excellence in Rotary Wing Aircraft Fellowships Lockheed/Georgia tech Research Assistantships Research Assistantships All graduate students will participate in research, For further information contact: Dr. A. L. Ducoffe, Director School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332 (404) 894-3000 Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 22, 1986 NASA Boeing using A&M facility Wind Tunnel busy with clients By ANTHONY S. CASPER Reporter International Harvester, NASA, Boeing, Lockheed, Bell Helicopter, the U.S. Army, Mack Trucks — the list goes on and on. It’s the list of clients for the Texas A&M Low Speed Wind Tunnel lo cated near Easterwood Airport. The tunnel, opened in the early ’50s, stretches 396 feet with a maxi mum diameter of 30 feet. When in full operation, the heart of the wind tunnel — a 12 l/a-foot, four-blade propeller — spins at 900 rpm and can produce a maximum wind speed of 200 knots (approximately 230 mph). Oran Nicks, research engineer at the facility, says although the tunnel is classified as a low-speed wind tun nel, the results gained by testing can be applied to higher speeds. “For example, all general aviation airplanes fly in the speed range that this tunnel can accommodate,” he says. “But it isn’t necessary to test at exactly the speed the airplane will fly, because you can reduce the data to coefficient form and we know how to take the data at these tunnel speeds and convert them to flight conditions. “And since we can adjust the pitch of the blades of the propeller, we can adjust the flow of the air through the testing section of the tunnel. This al lows us to simulate different stress conditions the aircraft may encoun ter.” Being able to vary the positions of the models as well as the propeller from the control room is one of the functions of the controllers. They also gather data from the tests. “It’s the measuring that really counts in a facility like this,” Nicks says. “You simulate a model, or whatever it is, flying in still air at whatever speed it is. If you think of an airplane flying through the air, it has a speed relative to that air. “If you think of a wind tunnel, what we do is hold the model in place move the air past the model so that all the relative things are simu lated. This is how we are able to gather the data.” Taking data from the test models is done by sensors located on or in the models. The information is then transferred to computers located in the control room. Nicks says the data collection computers used are some of the most advanced used in any wind tunnel in the country. < By SO ors wl offici ter is ts a wi< petim t the I “We have recently updated them and I’m told we now have one of the most modern tunnels and facilities in the country,” he says. “Many com panies, including the federal gov ernment, who have their own tun nels even come to us. The cost for testing is relatively low, and they say we give more consistent, accurate re sults. We’re pretty proud of that.” Another feather in their cap is re search and development done for the U.S. Olympic Bicycling Team. “The bicycles that were used in the Olympics last year were tested and developed here,” Nicks says. “The U.S. won nine of the 16 medals in bicycling at the Olympics. That was the first time in 63 years (since 1921) that the U.S. had won any medals. “We did it by improving the drag of the bikes and the riders’ positions, th^ir helmets, their clothes. We tested all of those things in the wind tunnel and we got the information they needed to make those advances. The testing itself took place about a year before the Olympics. “It was a very hush-hush test. They (the Olympic bicycling team) kept the information to themselves until the Olympics. Now it’s all been published because they’re sure ev erybody will be copying it.” Not all testing done at the tunnel is kept that quiet, however. Missile configuration and military aircraft testing is done routinely and does not encompass any classified materi als, Nicks says. “The reason there is no classified material tested here is because what we test are configurations, ” he says. “This means there are no actual clas sified materials necessary. The only reason something is kept quiet is when the company we are testing for asks us to. This may be for business or trade secret reasons.” Engineering students also get a chance to see how their models with stand the tunnel’s test. "About 75 percent of the wwil do is for fee-paying custoi Nicks says. “The rest of thetiiKl help aero students by testing I stuff. This way we can givetlw| tual experience during the i phase of their projects. Anditk keep Texas A&M’s aeronauticalJ aerospace engineers the best! country.” Woman haunted by fiance’s murder )nly fom the r said Associated Press LIVINGSTON — Laura Nugent said she had recurring nightmares that led her to conclude her missing fiance was dead even before his body was discovered. Nugent, 36, a former secretary at Hull-Daisetta Woodson Junior High School, had planned to marry the tba” “He (Hurley Fontenot) liked to gamble two or three times a week, and I got tired of that. ” — Laura Nugent, 36, Fontenot’s former girlfriend and secretary. Texas county looking for him said she had nightmares in she found Fleming, but he look away and not see her. V P rev i< [duate ’s plao lore n school’s football coach, Billy Mac Fleming, last summer. But Fleming, 36, disappeared April 12 and his body was found 10 days later near an old Polk County logging trail. Investigators say he was shot twice in the back of the head with a .22-caliber gun. The school’s principal, Hurley Fontenot, 48, is being tried on a murder charge in Fleming’s death. Fontenot has pleaded innocent to the slaying and is free on $50,000 bond. During the second day of the trial on Tuesday, defense attorney Dick DeGuerin continued questioning in vestigators about a photograph of tire tracks found near Fleming’s body. DeGuerin said the tire tracks do not match the tires on Fontenot’s pickup truck. He asked Polk County sheriffs investigator Raymond Ed munds who took the photograph, but Edmonds said he did not know. State District Judge John Martin declined to allow the photograph to be submitted into evidence unless DeGuerin can prove where it came from and why it is significant to the case. Prosecutors say Fontenot, who once dated Nugent, was jealous of her relationship with Fleming. Nugent said that after Fleming was reported missing, she drove along the back roads of the East “1 knew it meant Bill was( that he couldn’t see me anyn she told the Houston Chronidei) interview published Tuesday. DeGuerin argued Tuesday] Nugent violated a gag ordtt agreeing to the interview andi that she not be allowed to tesiil the case, but Martin denied l ps was ipus re Ruven A ling to] |)k that hr quest. Fontenot was “real caring, !! beginning, but the relatios waned because he went to tht tracks too often, Nugent said. “He liked to gamble two or! times a week,” she said, "andl tired of that.” ENTC ce arn onnect fighter mty ro; he fin <ey of l condit Program on scholastic probation scheduled for tonighl By FRANK SMITH Staff Writer Students with academic problems comprise the target audience for a presentation tonight about scholastic probation and ways to get off it. The program is scheduled to be gin at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder Tower Sponsored by Hart Hall, it will consist of talks by Dr. William Perry, chairman of the academic appeals panel, and Dr. Ludy Benjamin Jr., a psychology professor. Benjamin said part of his talk will be about study skills, note-taking, reading and test-taking. “And I’m going to talk some about time management and time manage ment techniques . . . cast in the framework of the attractions of so cial life and extracurricular life — the increased responsibilities and the increased freedom that often come into conflict with one another in a college setting,” Benjamin said. University of Texas as an under graduate in 1962. “I hung around on continuous probation for two years before I got a letter from the dean awarding me ^one-semester vacation,” he said. “Hopefully, through thispr(< ~ dbigi X Benjamin’s academic history might be a source of encouragement to students currently experiencing academic problems. He said he had scholastic prob lems of his own after entering the “I try to use that to my advantage by letting students know there are ways of turning that around.” Bob Herrejon, a Hart resident who helped organize the project, said the program is also intended to help develop a scholastic help pro gram through which some Hart stu dents could aid those with grade problems. we’ll get a big brother and program going and get morepi here at Hart more closely in 1 ' with the people who are acai cally in trouble and really them,” Herrejon said. dical Ce taken er back Mark Gee, president of HaJ the timing of the event migr benefit students. “We thought this would bei ity program to do for thefirii] since anybody who’s on scM would still be able to add-drop.I said. THE BETA THETA PI AGGIE COWBOYS FRATERNITY is proud to announce SPRING '86 RUSH for more information call: Rob Crawford (President) 764-9291 George Warren (Rush Chrm) 846-6415 EXPERIENCE IT! BETA THETA PI AGGIE COWBOYS SPRING '86 RUSH SCHEDU Wed. Jan 22- OPEN PARTY, 8:00-12 K.C. Hall in Bryan Sat. Jan 25 - FAJITA C00K0UT Noon- 3.00, Oaks Park Toes. Jan 28- OPEN PARTY,8:00-12:05 K.C. Hall in Bryan Sat. Feb. 1 - INVITE BACK PARTY T.B.A. Sun. Feb. 2 - HAPPY HOUR T.B.A. GO BETA !