[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5, Parts 1200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1210.6]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1210--DEVELOPMENT WORK FOR INDUSTRY IN NASA WIND TUNNELS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1210.6  Test preparation and conduct.

    (a) Programming by user. The user will be given the greatest 
possible freedom within the objectives of the scheduled program to 
obtain the quality and quantity of information desired, to determine the 
sequence and number of test runs to be made, and to make modifications 
to the program arising from the results obtained, subject to 
requirements of safety, energy conservation, practicability, and the 
total time assigned.
    (b) Model systems criteria. Information will be furnished for each 
facility on the permissible size of model, standard balances, safety 
margins to be used in the design of models, model mounting details, and 
other pertinent factors. All model systems criteria required by the 
facility for safety consideration including the necessary drawings and 
stress analyses of the articles to be tested will be furnished at a time 
specified by the facility staff for their use in preparing for the test.
    (c) Instrumentation. Each facility will provide basic 
instrumentation suitable for the test range of the respective facility 
and computing equipment for the reduction of test data. If the basic 
instrumentation furnished by the facility does not meet these test 
requirements, the user will provide suitable instrumentation which will 
be calibrated by the facility staff to ensure accuracy of measurement. 
This Instrumentation will be made available sufficiently in advance of 
the test date to accomplish the calibration. Serious delays arising from 
inaccuracies in user supplied instrumentation, if occurring during the 
scheduled test period, may result in reassignment of the position of the 
tests on the facility schedule. Detailed specifications and arrangements 
for special instrumentation will be established by mutual agreement. The 
user will be required to furnish all information necessary to prepare 
the data reduction software program at a date specified by the facility 
staff.
    (d) Test program. All tests will be conducted under NASA supervision 
and by NASA personnel or by NASA support service contractor personnel 
unless approved otherwise by the facility manager. The test program 
shall be approved by NASA personnel before the test project is accepted. 
By agreement between the user (company representatives or the requesting 
agency) and the center staff, changes in the test program may be made 
within the objectives of the scheduled program if time is available. 
When tests are not totally conducted by NASA personnel or by NASA 
support service contractor personnel, the NASA Field Installation Safety 
Officer shall verify that the user personnel are fully cognizant of 
facility safety problems and operations. A current SAR on the facility 
shall be available to the user personnel for review.
    (e) Test data. The NASA staff will be responsible for obtaining all 
test data, its reduction to suitable coefficient form, and the accuracy 
of the final data, but NASA will assume no responsibility for the 
interpretation of the data by others. Transmittal of the data

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will be made as soon as the test is completed and the data are deemed 
releasable by NASA. For company projects, the data will be transmitted 
as directed by the company. The data for Government projects will be 
transmitted simultaneously to the sponsoring Government agency and the 
contractor (if applicable), unless otherwise directed by the sponsoring 
agency.
    (f) Shops and office space. During the conduct of user testing, NASA 
will provide desk space and at least limited use of the shop facilities 
to the user whose projects are under test.
    (g) User furnished personnel. User personnel associated with each 
project will be agreed upon between the user and facility staff prior to 
the test.

                          PART 1211  [RESERVED]