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RE: Arfon's Aerodynamics

To: "Twin Jugs Cycle" <twinjugsharley@yahoo.com>,
Subject: RE: Arfon's Aerodynamics
From: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:28:20 -0600
Todd:

very much in the hot-rod spirit, just like Jack and Howard.

And these expediencies are not NON-scientific.  Obviously, they could be
MORE scientific-- but the point is, they have enough science and engineering
in them (even if it comes from instinct and experience, rather than books)
to serve the purpose.

When somebody else has a better timeslip, THEN maybe you need to consider
advancing your science.

Long live hot-rodding; the ones with the fastest timeslips have proof that
they know what they are doing!

Everything else is just talk.

Russ, #1226B

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To: joe lance; land-speed@autox.team.net
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Subject: Re: Arfon's Aerodynamics


> art said he didn't understand that scientific
> stuff,so he just built the green monster to fit in a
> bus.

I love that train of thought... very realistic!
It's funny how sometimes are own personal
circumstances create more viable real world solutions
to our problems then all the theory we can over load
our mind with. I happened to accidently fall into a
tear that Paul Batts had already came up with simply
by a combination of wanting to feel comfortable in a
tuck, the basis of modified rules of ECTA and SCTA,
and the amount of material I had available to make it
that way.
The only testing I did on what a few of us that work
together are basing our setups on was to attach a
string to the front of different cardboard cutouts and
use my blow gun over it(so Dad's wind tunnel is going
to be on the cutting edge "for me" as I only have one
other thing for comparison - cardboard and an air
compressor). Was this testing... in my backyard mind
it was, was it scientific... not whatsoever, did it
have the ability to allow me to get some sleep and get
back to work on my project... absolutley.
I believe in keeping it simple but very seldom have
the ability to practice it.
Todd Dross-(very thankful for a couple buddies that
smack me upside the head to get me back on track when needed)

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