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Contents 1 Langley's role in the Avro Arrow 2 Subsonic wind tunnel 3 Added New info for Langley Research Center 4 Coming to get me 5 Completely Reworded

[edit] Langley's role in the Avro Arrow

is it in any way pertinent for this article that the Avro Arrow's test model was brought here in 1956 to determine why it became unstable around Mach 2.4? GBC 01:52, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subsonic wind tunnel

I've added a photo of the 14 x 22ft. Subsonic Wind Tunnel. It's kind of in a precarious position currently, but IMHO it's the best looking location. It should be moved to a lower location once this page is expanded. Axda0002 18:26, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added New info for Langley Research Center

I Added a couple more facts about various machinery research taking place at the center. I learned most of it on a tour I took of the place last year, (If you work there, i give you props man, that place is amazing in the fields of fabrication and development) had a couple other, but internet crashed. Here are the others I will try to place on the page:

• Long-Range Sensory Apparattus, 'R2D2' Droid
• Laser Etching
• Ultrasonic Water-Jet Cutter

+ Quite a few more repairs will be made to the structure of the additional information

If you want to finish it yourself, here's a helpful site - another website for the article

And if your not pleased with it, I would be happy to return it to normal. Wongizzle06 20:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coming to get me

Someone (coming from IP 80.219.134.104) has been POV-pushing the "moon landings were faked" conspiracy theory (and using incomprehensbly bad english to do so). I've tagged the section (created in its entirety by our conspiracy theorist), but, while my first reaction was simply to delete the whole section, it actually seems like there might be some useful tidbits mixed in with the paranoia and incoherence. Someone with more knowledge of the facilities at LRC than me might actually be able to turn the section into something useful. And it's possible that some of this conspiracy stuff deserves mention, albeit in a more neutral manner ("Some conspiracy theorists believe that the facilities at LRC were used to fake the moon landings", or something like that.) It is a fairly notable conspiracy theory, no matter how silly. (For the record, I'd like to point out that it was the Plymouth Rock landings that were faked! If you look at the photos from that era, they were clearly doctored!)  :) The rest of the article should probably be checked too, as I'm not sure that 80.219.134.104's actions were entirely confined to the one section. Xtifr _tälk 22:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I've added verification and rewrite tags under that section. Still needs a LOT of work!

Supersquid 08:42, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Completely Reworded

Man, that took a while. Hope this is better. Kjhf 10:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)