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1. comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:03:28 -0500; Maybe there are some newer folks that haven't seen some of this... Eakers first rule he gave me.... LOWER IS BETTER... almost virtually Always. Rear spoilers suck HP ... you only need downforce if yo; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00327.html (9,337 bytes)
2. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:32:17 -0700; Good summary! All the things I have been preaching about. And have tried to incorporate into my car. Wait until you seen the paint job and the roughness of it. No big tricks to reduce o the tiniest i; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00328.html (10,074 bytes)
3. RE: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:59:25 -0700; Good stuff, thanks for sharing. As for the waxing, true enough for a "low speed wind tunnel" but you sure about a 300 MPH car? Maybe I'm just from the "has to look right to be right" school ... LOL D; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00329.html (9,737 bytes)
4. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: "Pork Pie" <pork.pie@t-online.de>; Date: 26 May 2006 18:39 GMT; first of all, it's not important how you go into the air (frontend) - it's improtant how you go out of the air (rearend) If you need a rear spoiler to go properly out of the air than your naked rear; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00330.html (8,382 bytes)
5. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:31:31 -0700; Thanks for the summary Keith. I'm sure the Camero will also provide surprises and information. In a discussion with Ron Ayers he talked about his involvement with "the" British motorcar museum as a d; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00332.html (8,218 bytes)
6. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:37:16 -0700; Another one of your SPEED SECRETS !!!!! You're energizing the boundary layer to promote laminar flow and reduce drag. You're a very, very sneaky dude mayf. Bryan; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00333.html (7,721 bytes)
7. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:07:39 -0700; Pork Pie, List, I was on Patrol at the 5 in 1985 when Andy Granatelli went by in his Camero. It sat high in the back and had a stock body. As he approached, I heard thunder in the distance, glanced a; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00334.html (8,489 bytes)
8. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:18:06 -0700; After flow separation, it does not matter much if the surface is rough or not. I once looked at the Boeing C17 contender (competition with Mac Dac). The front of th eplane where it entered the air wa; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00336.html (8,849 bytes)
9. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:23:45 -0600; The C-17 was designed and built by Mac Donald-Douglas, Boeing bought the company out and took credit for it along with everyone else they bought out. I worked on the C-17 program for 3 years. Glen -; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00337.html (9,748 bytes)
10. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:45:36 -0700; I have noticed the same rivet pattern on C-130's. I thought MS stood for modified streamliner. You take a streamliner and graft an old, small, foreign car to the tail. Bryan; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00338.html (8,832 bytes)
11. Re: comments from the wind tunnel... (score: 1): Author: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:17:30 -0700; I remember back in the 60's when Richard Petty went to Daytona with a wrinkle finnish painted roof on his Plymouth. Everyone thought it was a big speed secret. It really was to cover up the fact they; /html/land-speed/2006-05/msg00339.html (8,209 bytes)

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