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Re: [Healeys] Camshaft Question -- Now MPG

To: "gregwilkinson@roadrunner.com" <gregwilkinson@roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Camshaft Question -- Now MPG
From: I Erbs <eyera3@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:55:31 -0700
It was also porous on the ground. The skin tightened at elevation and speed

I Erbs
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On Jun 11, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Greg Wilkinson <gregwilkinson@roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> 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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