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Inside Texas Tech's Debris Impact Facility

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KRBC Chief Meteorologist Randy Turner and I spent a blustery late-October day at Tech's Wind Sciences Center at the former Reese Air Force Base just west of Lubbock. A non-descript building houses the world-famous Debris Impact Facility, in which wooden 2X4 "missiles" are launched into various objects using a compressed air cannon...basically a potato gun on steroids.