Show Windproof Span Designed After Wind Tunnel Tests By 1948 a new Tacoma Narrows Bridge will be built over Puget Sound replacing the one that four months after its completion in 1940 was destroyed by wind says Colliers The new span the first to have its design based on wind- wind tunnel tests of a model will have shock absorbers at numerous points It will also have air slots in the floor which will enable it to with with- withstand withstand withstand stand a wind nearly three times as strong as that which caused the former structure to crash |