Yeap, the parachute went up in nearly a 30 degrees angle. he got the picture
from Don, which I done last year October (and gave to Don) when Don went out of
the measured mile
during the FIA record - at first the chute stays down, after (appr.) 1/2 mile
the chute is going up - by the way, Terry Nish 998 is doing the same. I got
picture from this affect done during the WF 02.
Pork Pie
"Bryan Savage" <basavage@earthlink.net> schrieb:
> 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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