Skip,
So you are talking about using the same technology that raises an airfoil on
the rear of a car as it accelerates to close openings to the plenum as speed
increases and air flow changes? Like the throttle slide plate we used on
the fuel injectors on a Jaguar engine? Just tie it to airspeed.
Wes
on 1/26/02 7:09 AM, Higginbotham Land Speed Racing at saltrat@pro-blend.com
wrote:
> Neil,
> As usual you have hit the nail squarely on the head. Now......how to vary
> the inlet size AND the size of the diffuser. (Air Box as Joe has
> suggested). If all that can be done in direct relationship to the speed of
> the car/air density, then we have the perfect inlet!!! AND the best ram
> recovery.
> Skip
>
>
> At 11:16 AM 1/25/02 -0600, Albaugh, Neil wrote:
>> Maybe a variable- area inlet is what is needed. ...works on an SR-71; that
>> goes pretty fast.
>>
>> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DrMayf [mailto:drmayf@teknett.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:29 PM
>> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Scoop Openings Revisited.....
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