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Re: Wind Tunnel

To: "Richard Kensicki" <lowtek@ptd.net>
Subject: Re: Wind Tunnel
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 18:30:53 -0500
This tunnel can't figure Yaw unless I set it up for it in advance... which I 
suppose could be one of the scenarios... thou it would require repositioning 
the car itself...

K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Kensicki" <lowtek@ptd.net>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Wind Tunnel


> I'll bite;
> Given you have X down force front and rear what do you lose in yaw mode? 
> How many degrees before car become unstable? Question: is this the same as 
> a cross wind?
>
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
>
>>Okay guys here's an interesting upside to being a Bonneville guy... Seems 
>>Gary
>>Eaker has built a cheapy wind tunnel in North Carolina and helps folks out
>>with their first time there... and he's a Bonneville guy... as well as one 
>>of
>>the countries best aerodynamicist's...  So all that having been said, I've
>>scheduled 2 hrs with him on the 18th to evaluate several different things 
>>with
>>the Berkeley...
>>
>>I've got to come up with the ten top items I want to do and develop a plan 
>>to
>>make that happen.
>>
>>Keith  ( ahhh yeah Otto... Hood scoop information is part of it. )
>>
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>>Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html




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