[SPAM] Re: Re: Larry, I mis-spoke (Notching the piston forpower)

[pb3vr6 at yahoo.com (Tonee Northam)]

Can I fly faster Lars, I have 2 dimples! haha
 
Tonee

Lars Bruchmann <pilotlars@yahoo.com> wrote:
bubbles are a fascinating study in and of themselves,
lol. i actually have a book with all those formulas,
reynolds number, all that crap, but it's in german,
and half of the formulas are greek, litterally,
heehee. you are correct though, there is a lot to
this, and my degree is not aerodynamics, but rather
aeronautics.. it's close enough to impress the ladies.
but i know dimpled balls fly farther, eh, golf ones,
i mean, and dimpled airplanes don't fly at all, and
birds fly south... oh whatever.
--- Tonee Northam 
wrote:

> Delete...
> 
> Ron Pieper wrote:Yeah...but...
> 
> There's FAR more to this topic than meets the eye,
> especially at an uneducated level. IMO you'd
> have to have significant study in to understand
> what, when, where, and why you want one kind of
> flow (laminar, turbulent, or transitional) over
> another, what it does for you and against you, how
> to obtain/avoid it, etc. 
> 
> In the end analysis, I jes' don't know.
> 
> What I *do* know is this: unless you have
> comprehensive knowledge of a bunch of stuff
> (Reynolds
> Number, Bernoulli effect, drag coefficients, the
> forces on moving shapes and what constitutes
> their value vs. velocity, Prandtl's boundary layer,
> etc. etc. etc. then comparing golf balls,
> intake tracts, piston crowns, boat hulls,
> under-vehicle cladding, dented airplanes, etc. is
> all
> just of bunch of fairy dust.
> 
> Sorry to burst bubbles, but thems my opinions.
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> --- "John S. Lagnese" wrote:
> > The idea may be similar to the design on the
> America Cup's boats. The hull's
> > got something like ripples in it, almost like
> grooves on a record. It
> > reduces surface tension and so increases speed.
> > John
> >
> 
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