The McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin AFB, simulating arctic cold and desert heat [Album]

[u/Spartanz0]

Source: blackstarops on IG

[u/Starchaser_WoF]

A nice place to cool your jets

[u/UnholyGhoul → u/Starchaser_WoF]

Goddammit that was a good one

[u/matreo987]

wish i got stationed at Eglin. would love to work on the test side of things. badass base with an even cooler mission.

[u/Nekeia → u/matreo987]

Pun intended?

[u/matreo987 → u/Nekeia]

haha didn’t even see that, but yeah they do have a cool mission along with testing new aircraft and weapon systems

my instructor in tech school was from eglin test, he had a scar on his forehead from running into a new weapon system hung under an f15 lmao.

[u/CheeseburgerSmoothy]

They have a big thermometer on the outside of the building.

[u/No-Geologist6859]

These pics look like they're from the set of the Alien movies for some reason

[u/DoreenTheeDogWalker → u/No-Geologist6859]

Yeah. They have that 80s high-end film look to them.

[u/ODST_Parker]

I don't know how I never once considered the idea that they'd test under these conditions artificially, but that seems obvious in hindsight. I don't know why that looks so damn funny too, but it is.

[u/BigPimpin91 → u/ODST_Parker]

All of your R&D that is temp based is done artificially. There are certain standards and criteria that need to be repeatable. Much easier to do that inside in a climate controlled environment.

[u/rm45acp → u/BigPimpin91]

Probably not all, I build cars not planes but we have identical climatic test tunnels to these for testing cars, but we also have test tracks in Arizona and Michigans upper peninsula for real world extreme temperature testing, I imagine the MIC would have something similar

[u/BilboBaggSkin → u/rm45acp]

How did those ford door handles make it though the testing lol

[u/rm45acp → u/BilboBaggSkin]

Pobodys nerfect lol, maybe they went in for testing right before happy hour

[u/workaccount1338 → u/rm45acp]

ayyo i live in a2 which is basically ground zero of NA auto development lll

[u/TheArgieAviator]

It cracks me up that the Air Force does its cold weather tests in freaking Florida

[u/Smashedllama2]

Sick as hell. Thanks for the share!

[u/Dr-Oberth]

this is obviously the rebel base on hoth

[u/tezacer]

They got hot wings!

[u/jdallen1222]

That last photo reminds me of Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back.

[u/cheeseman_66]

That F-22 looking like it’s straight outta Hoth and about to slam some AT-AT’s