[Land-speed] New LSR

Kirkwood saltfever at comcast.net
Thu Apr 2 12:14:39 MST 2009


It appears that the outrigger is on the UPWIND side. You can see this by the
upward bending in the strut, leaning of the vertical wing, and the dust
blowing down-wind. Why isn't it on the down-wind side? To offset blow-over
forces you have to add a lot of weight as wells as build in down-force (with
the corresponding DRAG) on the strut. If he was heading in the other
direction the strut could be built with less drag and ballast?  Interesting!
-Elon


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