Hey Dad
Type in wind tunnel on google.com, lots of info you are looking for.
Glen
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From: "dad land" <eaglemot@bellsouth.net>
To: "landspeedracer" <landspeedracer@msn.com>; "Twin Jugs Cycle"
<twinjugsharley@yahoo.com>; "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; "Dave Dahlgren"
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: home made wind tunnel
> very good question!will a low speed tunnel still give us usable
> data?.........how 'bout a smoke wand, a manometer for high/low pressure
> areas/ and a scale tied to the front of the vehicle to measure the pull of
> the wind and differencves of measure after changes made? .dad
> > So what is the difference in usable data between a low speed tunnel (say
> 70
> > MPH) and a high speed one at (125 to 150 MPH)?
> >
> > On a homemade (low speed) tunnel what (affordable) instrumentation would
> one
> > need? Example what is needed to measure MPH if that's really important
to
> > know. What type of simple strain gauge set up would be needed for drag
and
> > down force measurement?
> >
> > John
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