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[Healeys] Camshaft Question -- Now MPG

Subject: [Healeys] Camshaft Question -- Now MPG
From: gregwilkinson at roadrunner.com (Greg Wilkinson)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:34:20 -0700
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On 06/10/2011 04:22 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Power required increases proportional to the square of the speed increase; 
> e.g. it takes four times the power and, roughly, the fuel to go twice as fast.
I believe Kelly Johnston's SR-71 was the exception to that rule. I was 
watching an interview with two of the SR-71 pilots on the History 
Channel (IIRC). They said that when their fuel was getting low, they'd 
throttle up. I think that thing was only happy when it was screaming.

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