- 41. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <basavage@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:56:27 -0700
- Now we got a problem!!! Watch out! 2 or 3 'puter hackers add class and spice things up but if you get too many, they'll drive property prices down. Welcome to the list Ray. Enjoy, Bryan
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- 42. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:37:46 -0500
- I looked-up an old pic of Gary's car-- number on it was #356-- but Gary jumps classes some, and may have more than one number to facilitate that. The day you were at Speedweek I think Gary wasn't th
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- 43. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Gibson" <rgg14@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:57:55 -0500
- IMHO so do guys that work on Chevys. LOL Welcome Ray Ron Gibson, Omaha NE
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00576.html (8,471 bytes)
- 44. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:08:21 EDT
- << Russ, I also agree that wheel driven records are what counts most. >> I think its the human spirit! Jack
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00587.html (7,936 bytes)
- 45. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:24:08 EDT
- << America it will never happen unless Bill Gates decides to do it........ It's the American way J.D. >> But we all have the right to try! that's the good part! Jack (without handicapping)!
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00590.html (7,939 bytes)
- 46. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:26:07 EDT
- << I have decided it is worth spending some of my own dollars to experience the feeling I felt when my sons almost tackled me at the end of the course and told me I just exceeded the record. Now they
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00591.html (8,018 bytes)
- 47. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:57:54 -0700
- Although I admire Richard Noble and Andy Green's place in the record books, I take my hat off to Vesco, White, Teague and others of the wheel driven venue. (and the bikes & riders also) It has to be
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- 48. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:41:16 -0500
- I''ve no idea what Breedlove is doing. My impression is that he is really pretty much outside the lsr "mainstream" (like Noble & Green?). He's a Californian, so perhaps somebody else on the list has
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- 49. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:54:06 -0500
- I've had that thing for years-- I bought it at the salvage yard in Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville AL. That place was fantastic-- 20 cents a pound! There were all sorts of electronic and missile stuff
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- 50. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:27:17 -0500
- welcome! We have a lot of fun out there. I made my record "back-up" run on the day you were at SpeedWeek-- 3rd vehicle off (I think) in the morning-- a yellow & black Suzuki GSX-R. (I wasn't quite a
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00638.html (8,792 bytes)
- 51. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Ray Buck <rbuck@aros.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:55:10 -0600
- Thank you for the welcome. I think I got there just after you had run. I got a bit of a late start that morning and drove out from Salt Lake...didn't quite make the beginnings of return runs. I know
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00639.html (9,423 bytes)
- 52. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:13:42 -0500
- A degree of relative difficulty depends on ones point of view. Let me illustrate-- years ago, I took an Airframe & Powerplant Mechanics course here in Tucson at Pima Community College. It was a very
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- 53. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:59:07 -0500
- Good point, Neil. I learned recip, rotary, turbine, and rocket theory almost simultaneously (being fascinated with all those things as a child)-- and they were all among the great mysteries of life!-
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00653.html (9,956 bytes)
- 54. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:07:48 EDT
- << imagine a turbocharger, sitting all by itself -- run a connector pipe from the compressor outlet to the turbine inlet -- put a fuel-oil injector and a glow-plug in the connector pipe You have a ga
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00655.html (7,744 bytes)
- 55. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:34:15 -0500
- you're welcome! Just don't ask me to explain a dohc 4-stroke to the gas turbine guys! Russ, #1226B --Original Message-- From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]
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- 56. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <basavage@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:46:19 -0700
- I'll second that Neil. I worked on the Atlas F project and learned (from the Rocketdyne folks) that you must load LOX slowly and very, very carefully. The Atlas Project had almost unlimited funding (
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00670.html (8,038 bytes)
- 57. RE: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:50:54 -0500
- Yes, those thermal expansion/contraction problems are horrendous with cryogenic fuels. "Atlas-F", eh? I guess that makes us both old-timers! Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ I'll second that Neil. I worked
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00698.html (8,383 bytes)
- 58. Re: Thrust (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:29:55 -0500
- The next level of complexity is ..... Suck, Squeeze, Wiggle, Bang and BLOW.... ( get your naughty mind outta the gutter ) Suck in air... squeeze it down in the axial stages of compression then the si
- /html/land-speed/2003-10/msg00717.html (8,371 bytes)
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