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Re: Rotation Drag

To: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>, <land-speed@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Rotation Drag
From: "Joe & Lynne Lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:54:57 -0500
Interesting---So if an open wheel car moves fast enough you could get a
sonic boom from the top of the tires?

Lance


 When you think of the
> tops of Joe Laws and Fast Freddies tires going through the air at nearly
the
> speed of sound I would think that might add greatly to the wheels drag -
> May-be it's the fact that the bottom of the tire has no foreward speed-
Saw at
> a place I've forgotten that the Cd for the frontal area of a tire is .58 .






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