IT may be little consolation to pedestrians entering the wind trap that exists by Glasgow University's Boyd Orr building on University Avenue as their umbrellas are blown inside-out and ripped from their hands, writes Alan Crawford.
But lurking behind the high-rise flats in Maryhill lies the university's latest research acquisition, a high-performance wind tunnel which they say will help put Scotland at the leading edge of aerodynamic research.
The tunnel, which can subject prototype models to wind speeds of 170mph, was
donated by British Aerospace and is now
ready to blow after a #1.5m refit courtesy of the Glasgow Development Agency. It was officially handed over to the university by Trevor Truman, British Aerospace's director of engineering.
Professor Roderick Galbraith, head of the Glagow University's department of aerospace engineering, says: ''This wind tunnel will be of invaluable use to a wide range of specialists such as architects, wind turbine makers, car, boat and aircraft designers, as well as research teams from Glasgow and other universities.''
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