Sorry Mr. Palmer... but there was a Dr. Kamm who was an aeronautical
engineer who figured out that if you cut the tail off a slipstream
surface, it cut weight without adding resistance.
Pre WWII.
tim
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Bob Palmer wrote:
> At 03:00 PM 1/20/99 -0500, TIGEROOTES@aol.com wrote:
> >Perhaps this is the little known 1962 Tiger prototype by Mr. Kamm !!!
>
> How about these "Kamm" references.
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/rcguerra/abarth.html
>
> or, as in Kammer (camera)
>
> or, closer to the German roots (Rootes?)
>
> http://www.freizeitbad.de/liste.html
>
>
> In German, the word "Kamm" (nouns are capitalized auf deutsch) means comb,
> ridge, cam (e.g., camshaft), horses mane, and various and sundry other
> meanings. The word "Kammer" means chamber (as in Kammer musik), hollow,
> camera, etc. I'm guessing the term "Kamm" in reference to the aerodynamic
> design has this latter German word as its source, but slightly corrupted by
> truncation, but still retaining the capitalization which misleads us
> English speaking folks to assume there must be a "Mr. Kamm". However, don't
> let this attempt at erudition spoil the fun.
>
> Viel zu sehr spass machen in San Diego,
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert L. Palmer
> Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
> rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
> rpalmer@cts.com
>
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