Press releases, press photos and other material for editorial coverage of Windtuner.

21  Apr  2026

When a wind tunnel runs a compressor map at three different Mach numbers in a single afternoon, the pressure scanner sitting on the rack needs to do two things: collect every channel without dropping samples, and report numbers the engineering team can sign off on.

20  Apr  2026

The global wind tunnel market reached $2.94 billion in 2025 and is on track to cross $3 billion in 2026. Aerospace and defense remain the largest drivers, but the growth story is broader than any single sector. Automotive aerodynamics, turbomachinery validation, and renewable energy testing have all expanded their use of wind tunnel facilities, and each of these programs depends on pressure measurement that holds up under scrutiny.

17  Apr  2026

When a wind tunnel lab sources its instrumentation, the procurement process often fragments into separate purchase orders: a pressure scanner from one vendor, pneumatic probes from another, an electric actuator from a third, and measurement software built in-house or patched together from open-source tools. Each component arrives with its own communication protocol, its own calibration curve, and its own learning curve for the engineering team.

15  Apr  2026

Windtuner Ethernet Intelligent Pressure Scanners take raw pressure signals and turn them into organized, time-stamped data. In engine testing, turbine performance work, and wind tunnel experiments, a pressure sensor that simply reads values is not enough. Engineers need a system that samples every channel at once, timestamps each reading, and moves the results over a network that scales with the rig. That is what Windtuner built.

14  Apr  2026

In aerodynamic testing, the question is always whether the pressure data can be trusted. When a research team mounts a probe on a sting behind a turbine blade or positions one upstream of a compressor face, that probe is the only thing standing between the engineers and their conclusions. Different configurations serve different purposes. Windtuner manufactures all of these configurations, and each unit ships after calibration in a CNAS-accredited wind tunnel.

14  Apr  2026

Windtuner engineers built the Ethernet Intelligent Pressure Scanner around a single idea: the data you collect has to be trustworthy from the first sample to the last. In aerospace and turbomachinery testing, pressure data drives decisions with real consequences. A misjudged pressure coefficient can mean a redesigned component, a delayed certification, or a flight envelope that closes tighter than the data suggested it should.

14  Apr  2026

Most people picture a wind tunnel as a static setup: model bolted in place, airflow moving past, data coming in. But the more useful tests often happen when things move. Pitch sweeps. Yaw sweeps. Roll measurements. What you are really after is how forces change as the model changes attitude, and you need an actuator that can put the model where you want it and keep it there.

13  Apr  2026

Aerospace engineers work in a world where air moves faster than sound, where pressure differences of a few pascals can separate a stable wing from a stall. The five-hole probe sits at the heart of this work, measuring flow angles and velocities that wind tunnel cameras cannot catch. Windtuner builds five-hole probes that capture three-dimensional flow data accurate enough to validate CFD models.

03  Apr  2026

In compressor development, the moment of truth arrives when a researcher inserts a five-hole probe into the blade passage and watches the numbers come in. No matter how many CFD simulations have been run upstream, the physical measurement remains the final check—an act of comparing what the code predicted against what the air is actually doing.