John,
This is a new one for me.
If you find it, please copy me too! Thanks.
Skip
At 07:18 AM 10/24/2003 -0500, john robinson wrote:
>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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