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ii As the demand for greater efficiency and reduced specific fuel consumption from gas turbine engines continues to increase, design tools must be improved to better handle complicated flow features such as vane inlet temperature distortions, film cooling, and disk purge flow. In order to understand the physics behind these features, a new generation of turbine experiments is needed to investigate these features of interest for a realistic environment. Until recently, experiments utilizing a turbine operating at design corrected speed have only made brief investigations of these topics and have purposefully excluded these complicating factors from the more detailed data sets often used for tool validation. It has required many years of effort to develop computational codes capable of accurately predicting the surface pressure and surface heat flux for an uncooled turbine operating with a uniform inlet temperature profile, but that has now been done [1-3]. Now that this can be accomplished using a variety of codes, the time has come to face the ne