the stroud fence wraps around the canopy holding it shut
that is a risk some do not want to take
a great device though none the less
if ya had someone posted near the catch net
to cut netting out of the way if needed
Joe :)
Salt Hawk wrote:
> After watching Nolan streak by to eternity this last week I have done
>something I never gave any thought to, how to stop one of these things. My
>first question is what ever happened to the catch fence that Strout built for
>this purpose.
> Anyway the answer has to be wind resistance, something that will
>always deploy and make a significant alteration in the speed of the vehicle.
>My idea would be a rotating nearly flat plate. It would be mounted on a solid
>piece of moly that ran threw the liner and pillow blocks that were bolted to
>the super structure. On the outside they would run the full length of the
>rotatable plate and be slightly back of the center of the plate. They would
>deploy simply by pulling a rotating pin, the leading edge would flip down and
>hit a stop, rotating them upward could allow them to act as a wing
>momentarily and lift the vehicle. They rotate down from having a very slight
>angle of attack The idea is that while they could be used for downforce, that
>is not their purpose, basically they would just add a ton of resistance and be
>failsafe, their significance would rapidly diminish as the speed decreased,
>but after say a mile of deployment , the chutes should be able to safely
>deploy and do their job. Burklands streamliner uses a rear airbrake with the
>same intentions, more complicated and perhaps creates some problems with chute
>deployment. I figure this should be adaptable to most any streamliner. So
>rattle this around if its not the answer maybe it will trigger some thought
>towards the answer. Kvach
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