As with other industrial trials, in all phases it is important and fiscally responsible to test the functionality of a product in non-destructive ways as much as possible. For enterprises devoted to airborne products, this includes employing wind tunnels for their unique controllable environment in order to ascertain critical knowledge of aerodynamics and durability under a variety of conditions.

When lighting can be controlled, detail is often the determining factor, which places the Y5 as the best suited camera. With a maximum resolution of 2336x1728 efficient pixels, potential ranges of interest are incredibly variable guaranteeing that users are able to suit the detail to their needs and maintain sufficient speed for slower wind tunnels (at maximum resolution, the Y5 records 730 frames per second, and this only increases with the fine tuning region of interest to the necessary size).

For faster wind tunnels, the Y3-S2 or Y4-S3 become the dominant choices: the Y3 with its higher maximum resolution (1280x1024) tops out at 6000 frames per second, while the Y4-S3 offers megapixel (1016x1016) resolution and up to 5100 fps in normal mode or 10500 in plus mode for slowing even hypersonic speeds.