touche Malcom, in private emails, I was very upfront
about that little fact biting us USA folks in the ass.......
yep, hard to get around that "SSC" thing..............
Joe :)
Quoting M Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>:
> Hey guys & gals, I only report the topics that may be of interest to lsr
> racers around the world. But the five layer suit still holds up even
> without SFi tagging!!!
>
> Thacker and Shine is an American team out of the So-Cal workshops, but it
> just so happens that Tony Thacker is a Brit now resident in the US. The
> car was in Britain for shows and a rod run and it would seem a wind tunnel
> test! The car was shown to the British public at the Goodwood Festival of
> Speed meeting - not the best setting for it to run but it would have
> expanded the lsr message like others before it. As far as I know even with
> a Brit on the team they have stuck to the salt for speed ........... and
> they are using an SCTA class car after all!
>
> As to who has the best wind tunnels ....... it all seems to depend upon
> construction and calibration. Even some of the grand prix teams can get it
> wrong and the 'rubbish' results mean poor car performance. There are not
> many full size tunnels available, most are model sizes and subject to scale
> difficulties.
>
> As to British electric cars in wind tunnels, I know of only the Bluebird
> Electric that has made it into a tunnel - indeed the same MIRA full scale
> tunnel (which does not have a moving ground plane at this size.
>
> 'e=motion' has been suffering from some very strong electric fields in the
> 'brain' of the controller. These are said to be sorted and testing will
> start again in the UK next month. As to when the FIA International record
> will be challenged we will all have to wait and see.
>
> Joe - as the Brits hold the outright LSR we ARE probably the best at
> getting the right numbers from any simulation/cfd/tunnel/model testing
> (LOL).
>
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