[Healeys] Camshaft Question -- Now MPG

[gregwilkinson at roadrunner.com (Greg Wilkinson)]

On 06/10/2011 04:22 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Power required increases proportional to the square of the speed increase; 
> e.g. it takes four times the power and, roughly, the fuel to go twice as fast.
I believe Kelly Johnston's SR-71 was the exception to that rule. I was 
watching an interview with two of the SR-71 pilots on the History 
Channel (IIRC). They said that when their fuel was getting low, they'd 
throttle up. I think that thing was only happy when it was screaming.