Richard Noble's Jet car had hundreds of small holes in the belly pan of the
car just for this reason.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: Arfon's Aerodynamics, a thought.
> Ahhhhhhh. (Straining the brain hard now.) I seem to recall that
> Scientific American did a story on boat hulls for (America's cup,
> single sculls, something?) where they determined that if you
> put a whole bunch of tiny holes on the skin and then forced
> compressed air through (from inside to outside) that it did
> something to the boundary layer - - - anyway reduced friction.
>
> Air is a lot thinner than water, but at our speeds - - -
>
> OK, want to go faster? - you just need to pass
> a little gas.......
>
> Maybe the Flue Flame Special was on to something.
>
> J.
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