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1. Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: ardunbill@webtv.net; Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 12:58:43 -0400 (EDT); Hi Folks, the discussion about aero leads me to wonder if the classic lakester with a body made from an aircraft drop tank isn't the best. I assume many dollars were spent by the plane makers to find; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00561.html (8,732 bytes)
2. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:23:37 -0700; I'm an amateur at this stuff but have read a lot and asked a million questions to try and learn. I have a book on Automotive aerodynamics that says a teardrop with the round end forward has a cd of; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00577.html (9,881 bytes)
3. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:49:08 -0700; Howard is right on the aero of the tank. The other big reason is you could buy them for $15 to $25 at surplus yards all over LA after the war.Being a two piece shell it made the ideal lakester to fab; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00578.html (10,729 bytes)
4. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: William T Smith <WmTSmith@landracing.com>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:17:55 -0600 (MDT); Bill, If'n you want to go fast the roll cage might save your life but you ain't goi'n to go very fast. The back end is verrrrryyy imporntan't to the air. wmts Quoting ardunbill@webtv.net: wonder if t; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00579.html (9,713 bytes)
5. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:21:37 -0700; Howard; I have wondered what shape would a water filled balloon dropped in free fall have? The only forces on it would be the air pressure. Would that not be the best aerodynamically best shape? Too; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00583.html (7,504 bytes)
6. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:40:14 -0700; The Aero guys at work told me that at the speeds we are moving, the way you leave the air is more important way you penetrate it. Jim in Palmdale due it's /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing l; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00586.html (8,245 bytes)
7. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:06:18 -0700; I'll bet if the bubber in the baloon was flexible enough, it would assume a basic teardrop shape just like a drop of water that has no container does. Howard /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailin; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00587.html (7,918 bytes)
8. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:21:33 -0700; Thanks for the info. That substantiates what I have learned, what the books say, and what Dr. Scott at the University of Arizona told me. He teaches Aerodynamics at the School of Engineering and we; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00590.html (9,144 bytes)
9. RE: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>; Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:48:19 -0700; Hi Bill, The shape of an aero object depends a lot on its use. While a teardrop shape does have a very low drag, when measured by itself, remember a bellytank car is running very close to the ground; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00603.html (9,488 bytes)
10. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 04:01:13 -0500; Best Wind tunnel I have ever seen for the Poor Man was Muroc Dry Lake... I hated the Dust until I got home and clean and watched a Video tape of the event Cris Shear sent me.... I was tickled to see; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00605.html (10,903 bytes)
11. Re: Aero Effects (score: 1): Author: Ken Bond <kmb2@humboldt.edu>; Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:57:44 -0700; If you go to: http://www.corvettemuseum.com/pictures/calendar.htm you can open up DETAILED picture of the front end of the C5 racing corvette. Boy, talk about chopping up the way the air enters on t; /html/land-speed/2001-07/msg00627.html (8,716 bytes)

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