Yep! Something just like that! Could even do it using impact air pressure
to mechanically change it.....no electronics tho!
Skip
At 08:26 AM 1/26/02 -0800, W S Potter wrote:
>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
>>>
>>>
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>>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:29 PM
>>> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
>>> Subject: Scoop Openings Revisited.....
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