- 1. Re: Rear wheel steering (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:55:54 +0100
- A picture is worth a thousand....... Having thought about this some more, Jon, you're right about kid's toys and what you are brought up on, as I said a few days ago, boats (and for that matter most
- /html/land-speed/2000-06/msg00120.html (11,297 bytes)
- 2. Re: Terminology Question... (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:55:27 +0100
- At the risk of another War of Independence..... When I went to school here in the UK we were in the transition period when we worked in both imperial and SI units, and to my understanding: Torque is
- /html/land-speed/2000-06/msg00410.html (8,860 bytes)
- 3. RE: Terminology Question...History Month on BBC. (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:13:47 +0100
- It wasn't until I started looking it up this morning I found that they even have a different horsepower! A standard HP is 550 and a metric HP is only 542.5 ft lb/s. I know in round terms that 1 BHP i
- /html/land-speed/2000-06/msg00413.html (9,729 bytes)
- 4. : Re: Front and Rear Steering Thoughts... (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:50:33 +0100
- 2 cents from a British lurker. I agree (not having ever tried rear steer mind you) that it's all probably more about what you're used to. You would probably find it impossible to control a boat with
- /html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00398.html (11,207 bytes)
- 5. Re: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <Jon.Hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:27:44 -0000
- At the risk of stirring another hornet's nest, as an electronics engineer involved in radar design I am used to measuring time routinely to resolutions of 0.00000001 second (though it's of no use un
- /html/land-speed/2000-03/msg00042.html (7,900 bytes)
- 6. Re: Big Engine/Small Engine (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Hobden <jon.hobden@rdel.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:48:31 +0100
- As a British lurker who was much into drag racing through the 70's I remember well Russ Carpenter's Daimler Hemi, and it just happens I found his website today: http://x-s.co.uk/members/rcr/index2.ht
- /html/land-speed/1999-10/msg00328.html (7,534 bytes)
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