- 241. Electronic control (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:28:45 -0400
- Bryan, Dr Mayf, Jack and List May I suggest that traction control is not the ONLY system that you (or I) may wish to have on an automobile running on a saly surface that the SCTA ruling bans........h
- /html/land-speed/2002-06/msg00397.html (7,018 bytes)
- 242. Parachutes (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:49:41 -0400
- Can the list help me find the maker of my parachutes or a supplier of the same make of chute. An internet serach drew a blank. I had a pair of 12 foot crossform chutes made by Filler Safety fitted to
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00023.html (7,512 bytes)
- 243. Finding Filler Safety (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 06:30:24 -0400
- Thanks to all who supplied information and help on this search. More help than you get from the national telephone company's 192 service here in Britain - do not know if you have the same in the US.
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00036.html (6,992 bytes)
- 244. Ways to spend a weekend - water not land (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:14:17 -0400
- Over here in the UK I spent most of the weekend in a grain barn hand sanding the hull of our 20 foot long hydroplane Lightning Strike! Next weekend should see the paint go - white and purple. We are
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00187.html (8,104 bytes)
- 245. Re: Ways to spend a weekend - water not land (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:04:48 -0400
- Rick and List The hull of Lightning Strike! is all marine plywood. We do have two carbon fibre spars that hold the outrigged sponsons. The plywood has been epoxy resin coated. You may need a lot of w
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00188.html (7,929 bytes)
- 246. Back to World Records! (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:40:18 -0400
- Jack C and List All of you would have guessed that I would come back on the Mickey Thompson 406mph speed of 1960. I have to disagree with you Jack - this was not a record - nor was it the first time
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00232.html (8,604 bytes)
- 247. 200mph club (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:11:25 -0400
- Thanks to all in the USA who helped make the inductions of Segrave (note the spelling, there is no a), Cobb and Campbell M possible. Our Coke drinking KT helped with the last two. Kathy Olson and Car
- /html/land-speed/2002-04/msg00277.html (6,951 bytes)
- 248. Maxton & not being there. (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:33:24 -0400
- Best wishes to all competing on the monster mile this coming weekend and to those who make the event happen. In Britain it looks as though we will have rain so I will sit in doors and think of 'flipp
- /html/land-speed/2002-04/msg00490.html (7,319 bytes)
- 249. Lightning Strike! - Water not Land. (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:08:40 -0400
- Glen and List The boat called Lightning Strike! is a three point hydroplane (outrigged sponsons at the front) with two inboard DC electric motors and a 'Ton' of batteries and a single prop. Well it s
- /html/land-speed/2002-04/msg00503.html (8,064 bytes)
- 250. Mayfield Award (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 07:41:37 -0500
- List and Mayf I guess I might be a contender for the award for mentioning the FIA and FIM sanctioning bodies on this racers list! Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00039.html (6,411 bytes)
- 251. Other 'World Records'. (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 07:41:36 -0500
- Close on the heels of the information on that RV world record may I suggest another of interest - going backwards or reverse driving.... A briton - Darren Manning - set acieved a speed of 102.52 mph
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00040.html (7,501 bytes)
- 252. Prize Day with KT (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:59:05 -0500
- And to think that at the end of the day KT will introduce you to an eating place in Laurinberg with great character..... regards, Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England (one of the 16). /// unsubscribe/cha
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00172.html (6,609 bytes)
- 253. Wind tunnel (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:37:14 -0500
- John and list On this side of the Atlantic speed racers have used University and commercial tunnels with models and full sized vehicles. This has been possible because of the need for students to hav
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00264.html (8,278 bytes)
- 254. Maxton opening event (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:38:34 -0500
- I hope that all who work on the event and who will be racing at Maxton have a good weekend. I hope the remaining 'rowdies' find a suitable place to eat! Have a safe and speedy time. Malcolm Pittwood,
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00408.html (6,742 bytes)
- 255. 75 Years of over 200 mph driving (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:29:56 -0500
- In six days time it will be the 75th Anniversary of the first land speed record set at over 200 mph. Even after all this time the speed still marks a threshold speed above which racers aspire to join
- /html/land-speed/2002-03/msg00415.html (7,524 bytes)
- 256. Under Pressure (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:00:06 -0500
- The use of compressed air as a substitute for atmospheric air (thats all around us) has been tried on the 1/4 mile, as others have indicated. The top fuel dragster in the Garlits Museum was owned by
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00026.html (9,448 bytes)
- 257. Re: 100cc Go Kart Land Speed Record Information (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:14:02 -0500
- I have a poster on my wall of the DAP 100cc Kart which ran at Bonneville - 1996. Driver Dave Bradley achieved 120.729 mph (194.294 mph). They claim the "World Land Speed Record 100cc". The certificat
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00096.html (7,775 bytes)
- 258. Re: 100cc Go Kart Land Speed Record Information (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 04:06:03 -0500
- Sorrry, hit the wrong key on the kph speed. Insurance of an FIA or FIM speed attempt has to be arranged by the competitor(s) concerned in organising it. Team Maximum Impulse paid an insurance fee for
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00115.html (7,970 bytes)
- 259. RE: Reynolds Numbers (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:31:55 -0500
- Ron Ayers the aerodynamacist of Thrust SSC became interested in Land Speed Record Cars when trying to discover why many earlier projects 'failed' to reach the designers hoped for speed. In his talks
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00520.html (8,664 bytes)
- 260. Extra Event At Bonneville (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Pittwood <MPittwood@compuserve.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:44:27 -0500
- The Landracing.com poll has indicated that over 70 people want a fourth event on the salt. Now Glen, if these 70 organise it and act as course workers, you and the rest of the BNI/SCTA group could ge
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00543.html (6,950 bytes)
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