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161. Re: Engine config (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:29:15 -0500
Benn - Sorry , error in my math it actualy takes 30 hp to accelerate a top fueler at 1 m/h - At 1 m/h the driveshaft is turning 30 rpm - If the engine is turning 6000 r/m and the driveshaft is turnin
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00079.html (8,334 bytes)

162. Re: Engine config (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:42:54 -0500
Dave - Are you saying you'd trust a web site of unknown accuracy and disbelieve your own calculator - John
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00080.html (8,155 bytes)

163. Re: Engine config (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:13:14 -0500
Benn - If someone put a stock Model A Ford motor in a top fuel dragster with a 400:1 rear it could blast off the line side by side with Larry Dixon for 5.88 inches (actual numbers) - John
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00082.html (8,240 bytes)

164. Re: Engineering Test OT (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:57:00 -0500
Every fall in Delaware there is an event called Punkin Chunkin - The point is to see who's device can toss a pumpkin the farthest - There are several classes and there are a bunch of trebuchets - One
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00135.html (7,069 bytes)

165. Aero Revelations (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:38:02 -0500
While reading my "Theory of Wing Sections" today I found a couple of things I didn't realize - (1) A streamlined shape that's widest in the middle has the least drag (always thought the best was fate
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00155.html (7,350 bytes)

166. Re: Aero Revelations (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:36:30 -0500
Easy there Dave , don't holler at the messenger - I'm just a curious seeker of information wondering why what I read disagrees with what I've been told - It makes sense that a more gradualy tapered b
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00170.html (7,432 bytes)

167. Re: Aero Revelations (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:44:07 -0500
Pork Pie - If the Cd of shape (A) was lower than the Cd of shape (B) why would you use shape (B) for a streamliner body - John
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00190.html (7,051 bytes)

168. Aero Revelations Part Two (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:20:22 -0500
Pork Pie and everybody thank you - I now understand my error has been trying to apply two dimensional rules to three dimensional aerodynamic questions - I have learned the book I need is "Hoerner Flu
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00202.html (7,038 bytes)

169. Bike Weather (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:06:24 -0500
It's 10 deg. here so it must be ideal motorcycle riding weather up in Marquette Michigan .
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00334.html (6,735 bytes)

170. Wind Noise (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:37:40 -0500
I read that an aerodynamicly slipery car makes less wind noise than one with more drag .
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00363.html (6,646 bytes)

171. Parachute Noise (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:03:06 -0500
Parachutes are noisy but you normaly cant hear them - In the morning from the long course time slip stand with the temperature inversion bending the sound downward you hear a boom and then a roar lik
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00373.html (6,955 bytes)

172. Re: FIA vs SCTA (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:53:38 -0500
I,ve been in volved in aircraft world records which are sanctioned by the FAI , also based in France - Because there is an active US branch of the FAI , the NAA , there were no problems .
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00393.html (6,279 bytes)

173. Aerodynamics (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:41:16 -0500
Excerpts from the 1998 book "Aerodynamics of road vehicles": The front half of a streamlined shape has a minor effect on its drag. A shape that had a Cd of .25 and 4" ground clearance would have a .2
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00429.html (8,073 bytes)

174. Source for book (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:23:41 -0500
Gary - There are many sources for the book "Aerodynamics of road vehicles" on Yahoo - The author is Wolf-Heinrich Hucho .
/html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00441.html (6,234 bytes)

175. Re: Streamliner question. (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:01:16 -0500
My copy of Theory of Wing Sections shows short fat NACA basic thickness forms (streamlined shapes) with up to 15 deg per side convergent angles - The drag goes up some as the angle increases but form
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00034.html (6,673 bytes)

176. Re: Streamliner question. (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:46:17 -0500
I'd bet short fat shapes can stand steeper convergent angles because the air at the widest part is more compressed and trys harder to return back into the low pressure in the convergent area - Long s
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00044.html (6,841 bytes)

177. Aerodynamic Shapes (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:38:39 -0500
A simple way to find a low drag shape for an entire body or a projection like a canoy is to follow the shape of a NACA symetrical wing section - The book "Theory of Wing Sections" has the plots for s
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00099.html (6,418 bytes)

178. Wheel Spin Indicator (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:06:51 -0500
My friend says his Mercedes has a light on the dash that signals wheel spin .
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00100.html (6,211 bytes)

179. Re: What's in your crankcase? (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:04:09 -0500
With my dragster with 60 wt oil a lot oil (and dirt) bypassed the filter element - Probably wouldn't have with thinner synyhetic .
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00190.html (8,611 bytes)

180. The Rodder's Journal Poster (score: 1)
Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:53:59 -0500
The ' 05 The Rodder's Journal poster that just came is a nice close-up of the Neumayer-Reed Brothers drop tank C lakester on the salt in 1954.
/html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00226.html (6,180 bytes)

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