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Re: Coast Down at Bonneville

To: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>, "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>,
Subject: Re: Coast Down at Bonneville
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:52:51 -0600
OK. I did and I'm now ready for "Coast down" calculations. Thanks Mayf.
And Joe and Russ
Skip (I hear that young guys don't have short term memory problems?????)



At 11:06 AM 1/26/03 -0800, DrMayf wrote:
>Sure, see my web site.
>
>mayf
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
>To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; "John Beckett"
><landspeedracer@msn.com>
>Cc: "List Land Speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 7:40 AM
>Subject: Coast Down at Bonneville
>
>
>> OK so how do you do it without data acquisition equipment at Bonneville?
>> Everybody can't afford it. Delta V is velocity and Delta T is
>what....time?
>> Surely not Temperature.....Then what? It doesn't seem to be intuitively
>> obvious....at least to me.
>>
>> Maybe hold the speed constant (as constant as possible) through mile 4 and
>> then coast through mile 5 and get the exit speed????? What is the formula?
>> Anybody know?
>> Skip

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