The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF), is a new initiative in which 17 tunnels distributed across seven UK universities (host institutions) are made open access (for up to 25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university and industry based. NWTF is intended to be as inclusive as possible while still supporting the best science. The scheme was announced on 9 January 2014 by David Willetts, Minister for Science and Universities. The total funding for the Facility is £13.3 million, £10.7 million coming from EPSRC and £2.6 million from the UK Aerospace Technology Institute. Recognising that the UK has a world-class talent base, a decision was taken by EPSRC and ATI to fund the NWTF and was taken to match this talent base to world-class facilities. The enhanced