Aerodium Sigulda is a company based in Latvia, which owns and runs the first vertical wind tunnel in Eastern Europe.
While being open to the public, it also serves as a testing base for new technologies and a training place for instructors.
[1] It was an open wall-less tunnel installed outdoors reaching a wind speed of 200 km/h with a diameter of 3.7 meters.
[citation needed] On May 3, 2017, a new generation open wind tunnel replaced the already outdated first model.
[5] Aerodium also managed to significantly lower the noise emissions, which allows this technology to be operated in urban areas.