[Land-speed] Bloodhound

[Neil Albaugh]

Mayf;

Their challenges are sure different than ours-- that's for sure!

I think their first runs are still quite a ways in the future.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:52 PM
To: "Neil Albaugh" <neil at dbelltech.com>
Cc: "David in Durango" <adin at frontier.net>; "LandSpeed list" 
<land-speed at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Bloodhound

> I am sure that their superior British engineering can come up with power 
> to over come  nearly double the drag to go from 762 to 1000 mph ( 
> caveat...area needs to be considered).  Transonic drag is gonna bee a 
> bugger to overcome. Ever see a transonic drag vs speed curve?  Now if drag 
> is nearly double and it is likely to be way way more then increased thrust 
> needs will be significant. I am sure they can do it, however.  I wonder 
> how they are going to over coming rolling resistance?  That also goes up 
> as some power function of speed.  Going to be interesting for sure.  I 
> hope they can keep all the tires on the ground as they set the record. 
> Some manner of objective evidence for that needs to be developed as teh 
> shock wave is going to in all likely  obliterate the track marks from the 
> wheels.
>
> When are they going to make the first runs and attempt?
>
> mayf
>
> Neil Albaugh wrote:
>
>>Your comments are certainly apt, David. The team will undoubtedly need to 
>>work
>>up to those speeds and it may take more than one attempt but they sure 
>>have
>>lots of thrust to work with.
>>
>>Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
>>
>>
>>From: David in Durango
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:00 PM
>>To: Neil Albaugh ; LandSpeed list
>>
>>
>>Hi Neil,
>>Its not that I don't recongnize Mr. Green's past accomplishments.  Nor can 
>>I
>>ignore the possibilities of the team.
>>
>>It just seems that a 32% (that's 1.3106 times your current record) seems a
>>little optimistic, don't you think? 32% is what? 1/3 ?
>>
>>I guess a lot of records are broken by over 30%, I didn't check the books.
>>
>>Godspeed!
>>  David;Bonneville.
>>
>>
>>
>>  I had an opportunity to talk to Andy and their chief aerodynamicist Ron
>>Ayers about  that car--
>>
>>
>>  How about this for a push- start vehicle? That's Colin Bond driving.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Their previous absolute speed record holding Mach 1 jet car, Thrust SSC,
>>broke the sound barrier at the Black Rock Desert in NV. If anyone can do
>>1,000mph they can. Both of them are really good guys and their team knows 
>>what
>>they are doing.
>>
>>  Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ