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

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.

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.

29  Mar  2026

The first eVTOL aircraft to receive type certification in China cleared its final airworthiness hurdle in early 2025. The several years of aerodynamic testing it endured generated more pressure data than most conventional aircraft programs accumulate in decades.

28  Mar  2026

Walk into any advanced turbomachinery laboratory today and you will find the basic and mundane components of all amazing aircraft:Probes, connected to pressure scanners, and mounted between plane wings, turbos and its frame.

25  Mar  2026

The modern turbomachinery test cell is a study in controlled chaos. Inside a compressor rig spinning at tens of thousands of RPM, engineers must capture three-dimensional flow fields with microsecond timing precision, correlate data across dozens of channels, and extract usable insights from terabytes of pressure measurements.

05  Mar  2026

Airspeed tube testing is a key procedure in aircraft research. We often see photos of decades of different fighters flying with airspeed tubes installed at the front; nowadays, the same goes for drones. However for those who are concerned with this process, there is no standard tube or installation structure that is always applied. the length and design of the tube is always open for debate according to the drone that needs testing.

26  Feb  2026

The big and small failures of wind tunnel testing or experiments we experience do not always occur because of airflow instability or model design limits. Its actual constraint is often within the measurement chain. Pressure signal drifts, synchronization lags, and calibration errors slow down wind tunnel operation. This causes runs and cycles to repeat, stretching the time used on not so meaningful work. This is the invisible bottleneck in wind tunnel testing.