Along the main highway out of Ankara toward Istanbul, a collection of tower cranes dominates the landscape that is Turkish Aerospace Industries' campus. The series of steel, concrete and glass structures being built there are the first visible signs of Turkey's development of an indigenous fighter aircraft, the TF-X, and a wave of aerospace programs that will be sure to follow. But among the numerous project offices and assembly buildings now under construction, it is the company's plans for a wind tunnel that perhaps gives the best impression of the scale of both the company and the country's aerospace ambitions.
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