The British are worried with the fast-approaching London Olympic games and the most pivotal issue for all British people is - will the Olympic fire endure the unpredictability of British weather?
To find this out the sponsor of London Olympics – BMW, lent its wind tunnel facility to test the torch in a variety of conditions. And I should say that the torch as a sportsman who brings it is very enduring - it withstands temperatures ranging from 23 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit, winds generated at upwards of 50 mph, with snow packed into the front and under driving rain.
The BMW Energy and Environmental Test Centre in Munich has three wind tunnels and two climatic test rooms capable of simulating weather -4F to 131F, replicating the Arctic Tundra and the Sahara Desert, generating wind speeds at up to 174 mph, and simulating altitudes approaching 14,000 feet above sea level.
