----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Bennett <benettw@bellsouth.net>
To: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
> Hey I have set back long enuff and read every comment about
> measurement standards and is it a world or national record, and felt
> like I should at a little humor to it all. How about just install a
> GPS unit in every car no matter where it runs or for what sanction.
> Then it will answer all the questions on speed and distance
traveled.
> It will give you average speed over a certain distance. I know they
> aren't that accurate, but if everybody used one they would all have
> the same inaccuracy. Oh and for those on the other side of the pond
it
> will give you metric too. Or would the conversion be inaccurate.
Just
> a joke don't take me serious on this one.
>
> BillB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
> To: LSR list (E-mail) <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 6:27 AM
> Subject: Re: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
>
>
> > List
> >
> > At the risk of stirring another hornet's nest, as an electronics
> engineer
> > involved in radar design I am used to measuring time routinely to
> > resolutions of 0.00000001 second (though it's of no use unless
that
> > measurement also has ACCURACY traceable to National Standards).
> >
> > But I have been intrigued for some time, following some
discussions
> in Fast
> > Facts on the numbers of significant figures quoted on speeds, as
to
> the
> > accuracy of the surveyed mile and kilometre courses. Can anybody
> involved
> > shed any light on this? Somebody mentioned checking temperatures
> of
> > "tapes" - does this mean that someone goes out on the salt and
tries
> to
> > pull a mile of measuring tape straight? And how orthogonal are
the
> traps
> > to the axis of the measured mile?
> >
> > And I'm not looking for an argument (was that a ten minute one or
> the full
> > half hour?) but I think we're all old enough to remember the
> discredit done
> > by the Bud Rocket "record" fiasco.....
> >
> >
> > Jon Hobden in Horley
> > (Donald Campbell's birthplace)
> >
> >
>
>
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