John
I talked to Bob last week. He does provide Vesco's chutes. He said he won't
ship a chute without a bag. He also related a story that is a good
example of
the unknown variables a work. He added 30 feet to an 80 foot tow line to
make the car feel a little more stable. He always thought longer is better
as far a tow lines go. Wrong! The chute was apparently moved back into
an area of higher wake turbulence and became very unstable. He's still
investigating the problem.
Bryan
PS: He is very concerned about all Bonneville racers and is willing to
try to
help even if you are not one of his customers.
landspeedracer wrote:
>List
>
>This weekend I observed one of Bob Stroud's "bag chutes". On a car that had
>had all sorts of parachute deployment problems this thing worked flawlessly.
>This wasn't a high speed run (190 MPH), but these bags do work. The car has
>the potential to go 275 at Bonneville, so he needed to get it right before
>his high speed runs.
>
>Maybe Bob would have some input on this high speed (400 MPH) chute problem.
>I think he does Vesco's chutes and I'm not aware of any problems with them
>at 450 MPH.
>
>John
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