Shark Sighting at KidWind wind tunnel

 If you liked the story about replacing the teeth on the Jaws shark photo op on Darlington's Main Street I think you will like as Paul Harvey would say, "The rest of the story."

It starts with the idea to build a shark just like the one I replaced the teeth on and mounting it on the front of our new high speed KidWind wind tunnel. 

To do this I built a scale model out of wire and pink foam. The pink foam represents the 4' be 4' KidWind wind tunnel test chamber sitting on it's base.  The wire is the outline of the shark jaws profile.

Here you can see I have added the rest of the shark head. The idea is to build it so that KidWind teams have to enter the wind tunnel to test their wind turbines by going through the jaws of the shark.

The mock up begins with having the high speed wind tunnel on it's base and then using plastic tubing to get the arch of the jaws to scale and size. You can see some of the frame work made out of 1/2" steel rebar around the wind tunnel.

So if you want to see how this project turns out keep checking the blog as I will be posting all the construction steps along the way.