[Land-speed] red hat?

[23weldon]

You guys go take another looks at this.  Something this simple that can 
travel at 200mph plus on the ground offers possibilities for a research tool 
for high speed vehicle performance.  I've suggested this sort of thing 
before...........  Anyone connected to an engineering student or school 
faculty member that may see an interesting study subject here?
I think the first thing I'd look at is whether a tether line of some kind 
kevlar like stuff or carbon fiber could be designed so it wouldn't drag on 
the ground or have too much aero drag and overwhelm other forces that you 
want to investigate......I can visualize a big truck with crane outriggers 
and a tall pylon on the bed parked in the middle of a dry lake.  (sounds a 
lot cheaper than a big wind tunnel) Several hundred yards of tether line 
would lead to an unmanned small streamliner. The primary control provided by 
the tether keeps it on a safe path and secondary manual or automatic 
controls and wireless telemetry provide the means for conducting 
experiments.  The beauty of this tool is that you won't run out of lake bed 
as you would with a straight line vehicle.
I'm not sure the BLM would go for a project like this at busy El Mirage. 
But there are other places less traveled.
Ed Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] red hat?


> Nah, Jack, while what you say may be true and probably is, the real 
> problem is "dynamic similitude". In order to compare those speeds with 
> those of the big cars than the ration of M L /T for each vehicle have to 
> be the same.  Same reason that wind tunnel model have to go faster to 
> achieve the same results as a big model...
>
> mayf
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>> Oh no!! He is not Rich enough, Smart enough, or Brave enough, and doesn't 
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>> set by the stroke of a pen!!
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>> From: "David in Durango" <adin at frontier.net>
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>> Subject: [Land-speed] red hat?
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>> will this guy get a red hat?
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