Gary, I'm putting in a phone call to the EAA here in WI this morning. If
there is any info, the Experimental Aircraft Association should have it, or
know where to get it....next I will probably call the Smithsonian if the
EAA does not produce....I got the time to do this and the itch to find out
about it....got a grad student here at the UW interested and looking too,
maybe he can find something......I will get back to you....
At 05:31 PM 10/24/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>I'm thinking of the P-51 radiator that
>>made thrust from the added heat from the radiator and the shape of the
>>ducting. this might be of some use to me with an aircooled bike.....
>
>hi John
>the P-51 radiator / duct was an experiment conducted during the 2nd ww
>by a scientist called Merideth and the effect is called funnilly enough
>the merideth effect BUT unfortunatly it really has no effect untill the
>speeds approach and exceed 350 mph where it actually started to produce
>enough thrust to start to counter the drag of the radiator exposed to the
>air stream
>unfortunatly this effect was not investigated any further and with the
>advent of turbine & jets it has all but been forgotten John I think that
>it merrits further investigation especially with streamliners , I started
>to research but there is very little data on this approach ' only a war
>time document by merrideth which I have downloaded and need to read
>through again
>anyone else know more about it ?
>Gary
>
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John Robinson, Mechanician
Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin
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Current World Land Speed Record Holder
Bonneville Salt Flats
H/GCC 92 cu.in. 1980 Dodge Colt
144.396 MPH set 2000
MPS-PG 441 c.c. 1967 BSA Victor Motorcycle
95.193 MPH set 2001
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