Ken Walky, Marlo Triet, had tunnel tests on their cars
Glen
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From: "landspeedracer" <landspeedracer@msn.com>
To: "Land Speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:54 AM
Subject: Wind tunnel
> We all know that wind tunnel time for our cars/scooters is expensive.
Don't
> know that any of us has ever been in a tunnel, except Bob Summers (forty
years
> ago) and Jim Fueling (GM connection). Not much of a data base as these are
> both Streamliners and only two at that. Now you guys may know of others,
but
> do we have any data to go with that? Since we can generally only speculate
> about our vehicles it would be nice to learn something factual about
> Lakesters, Roadsters, Coupes and scooters.
>
> So I was wondering if there would are any small (scale) tunnels that might
be
> available at some Universities that we could somehow use. Not sure how to
find
> them. Just might be a student who needs a project to write a paper on.
>
> Building an accurate model is no small task, but I am sure there are some
> amongst us who could accomplish this task extremely well.
>
> Maybe I'm just dreaming.
>
> John Beckett
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