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Re: frontal area/drag coefficient

To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>, "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
Subject: Re: frontal area/drag coefficient
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:37:43 -0600
I'm thinking I already have the Virtual Red Hat.... K

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> From: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
> To: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
> Cc: landspeedracer <landspeedracer@msn.com>; Glenn Ridlen
<gridlen@yahoo.com>; land Speed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: frontal area/drag coefficient
> Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:28 PM
> 
> I think i am going to build a virtual car.. CD is 5.0 but it doesn't
matter as
> the area is all in my mind so the drag will still be 0 as the area is
zero
> also.. weight what is the mass of a few neural connections, in my case
not much
> I am sure..
> LOL
> Dave
> 
> Joe Amo wrote:
> > 
> > The EZ-Hook two wheeled streamliner
> > is   AERODYNAMICS
> > FRONTAL AREA, 3.62 SQ. FT., DRAG COEFFICIENT .1007,
> > so frontal area isnt everything, problem is we dont have wind
> > tunnels to get the drag number down, this is half the frontal
> > area of Goldenrod, and EZ hook was developed in
> > the wind tunnel of Cal Tech!!
> > Joe
> > 
> > landspeedracer wrote:
> > 
> > > Realisticaly .18 to.20. There are some better numbers out there, but
without
> > > a tunnel its pure guess work.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Glenn Ridlen" <gridlen@yahoo.com>
> > > To: "land Speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:18 PM
> > > Subject: frontal area/drag coefficient
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know what DC numbers might be reasonable to expect or
should I
> > > say attainable by an amatur builder without the aid of a wind tunnel
for a
> > > style similar to Jack"s Nebulas Theroem II or III.
> > > > Find a job, post your resume on Yahoo! Careers.

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