Model testing facility of the Motorised Airship Study Society in Göttingen

Model testing facility of the Motorised Airship Study Society in Göttingen
Model testing facility of the Motorised Airship Study Society in Göttingen
This photograph from 1908 shows the Institute of Model Testing of the Motorised Airship Study Society (Modellversuchsanstalt der Motorluftschiff-Studiengesellschaft; MVA), DLR’s first predecessor organisation. The building housed the first wind tunnel of the Göttingen type – developed by Ludwig Prandtl in 1907 – and otherwise consisted only of an observation room and a writing room.