Dave,
If it was supposed to be such a help how come those Kiwi's beat us?
The effectiveness of the dimple effect must be why so many people are
hitting golf balls ... for research!
Have you noticed the paint job on the new USFRA cones Bud McManus did for us
last year? He put reflective beads in the top strip of yellow paint. Can't
say WE are behind the aerodynamic curve, even with marker cones.
Wes
on 5/21/02 6:19 AM, Dave Seely at dseely@sginet.com wrote:
> That was one of the secrets to one of the America's cup sailboats, they
> imbedded glass beads in the hull paint. Like the dimples on a golf ball or
> the texture of sharks skin it tended to reduce the thickness of the boundary
> layer making the hull hydrodynamically 'smaller'. Ain't that true, DrMayf?
> My aero professor told me that if I wanted my car to go faster I should
> attack it with a ball peen hammer. I have no data as to how effective this
> would be. DrMayf needs a dyno and a windtunnel in the metropolis of Pah
> Rump Nev.
> Dave Seely
> 1141 XF/VOT
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