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Re: Aero Effects

To: "DOUG ODOM" <popms@thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: Aero Effects
From: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:06:18 -0700
Doug,
 I'll bet if the bubber in the baloon was flexible enough, it would assume a
basic teardrop shape just like a drop of water that has no container does.
Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: "DOUG ODOM" <popms@thegrid.net>
To: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Aero Effects


> Howard; I have wondered what shape would a water filled balloon dropped
> in free fall have? The only forces on it would be the air pressure.
> Would that not be the best aerodynamically best shape? Too much for my
> simple mind.   Doug Odom getting ready for Bonneville.

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