To: | <Want1937hd@aol.com>, <john@engr.wisc.edu>, <drmayf@teknett.com> |
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Subject: | Re: What's Up? |
From: | "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com> |
Date: | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:37:59 -0800 |
I think that you can hide the driver to a large extent in the engines square area. It's easy if you use a tank engine, harder if you use a Pinto. Rich Fox -----Original Message----- From: Want1937hd@aol.com <Want1937hd@aol.com> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net> Date: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: Re: What's Up? > > ><< I know absolutely nothing about this, but frontal area is a big part of >drag > I suppose and 7sq. ft. sounds like alot. But I don't know. Anyone have some > numbers to compare to? Rich Fox >> > > What is the frontal area of a driver in a firesuit with rollbar >clearance? That would be the minumum size of a car.Bob in connecticut /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// with nothing in it but /// /// unsubscribe land-speed /// /// or go to http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// /// |
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