Indoor Skydiving Wind Tunnels

AEROLAB designs and builds premium indoor skydiving vertical wind tunnels that offer a superior flight experience to both expert and novice flyers.

AEROLAB has accumulated decades worth of experience in designing and building sophisticated aerodynamic research wind tunnels across a wide range of industrial and research applications. This experience has allowed us to layout indoor skydiving wind tunnels that maximize performance and flow quality and that also minimize power and noise.

Our proprietary power system sits at the heart of our vertical wind tunnel systems. The system utilizes a single fan that has been geometrically optimized to maximize flow quality and power efficiency. Our fan technology, along with our optimized wind tunnel flow path designs, enable our wind tunnels to offer smooth and stable flow in flight. Our flight chambers are further configured with a neutral pressure configuration which eliminates the need for an enclosed staging area or anti-chamber.

Our wind tunnels have been designed and configured to minimize facility footprint and construction costs and to maximize system uptime. Maintenance of our wind tunnels is straight forward and structured to allow our customers to operate heavy duty cycles with minimal downtime.

Our experience and corporate footprint further position us to offer maximum support during the planning, construction, installation, and commissioning phases and to follow-up with technical support, training, and maintenance once facilities are operational.

Our family of Indoor Skydiving Vertical Wind Tunnels includes both standardized designs and custom designs that are created to match unique customer requirements. We offer 2 standard sizes including a 14 ft configuration and a 8.5 ft configuration.

AEROLAB Vertical Tunnels Key Features

• Single loop closed circuit wind tunnel configuration
• Neutral pressure flight chamber (no anti-chamber is used)
• Single high-performance axial-fan with a low noise design
• Efficient and reliable electric motor and drive
• Advanced wind tunnel control and monitoring system with built-in safety features
• Round flight chamber glass with minimal seams
• Advanced high-efficiency wind tunnel geometry profile
• Advanced composite construction of wind tunnel parts

AEROLAB Vertical Tunnels Benefits

• Compact Footprint: Single loop with floor space requirements and multiple options for basement depth and above grade elevation.
• High Performance: Allows for flight by experienced and novice flyers
• Superior Flow Quality: Maximum flow uniformity (no dead spots) and minimal turbulence
• Low Power Consumption

AEROLAB A14M04 Vertical Wind Tunnel Configuration

• Flight Chamber Size: 14 ft Diameter x 18 ft Height (Optional height up to 30 ft)
• Flight Chamber Type: Curved glass (4 panels)
• Tunnel Pressure Configuration: Vented at flight chamber / neutral pressure flight chamber (no anti-chamber)
• Top Speed: 180 MPH+
• Max Capacity: 8 Flyers at top speed
• Power: 1x 4160 VAC 3Ph Motor with inline planetary gearbox
• Fan: Single Aerolab axial fan (Low noise design)
• Cooling: 2X chilled water air exchangers.

AEROLAB A08M02 Vertical Wind Tunnel Configuration

• Flight Chamber Size: 8.5 ft Diameter x 13 ft Height (Optional heights up to 18 ft or down to 8 ft)
• Flight Chamber Type: Curved glass (4 panels)
• Tunnel Pressure Configuration: Vented at flight chamber / neutral pressure flight chamber (no anti-chamber)
• Top Speed: 150 MPH
• Max Capacity: 2 Flyers at top speed
• Power: 1x 480 VAC 3Ph direct drive motor
• Fan: Single Aerolab axial fan (Low noise design)
• Cooling: Options for neutral vented, forced air, or chilled water based system
• Facility footprint: Designed to fit within a wide range of single or two level industrial facilities.