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| Wind Tunnel regulations; Question to our technical experts | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 30 2012, 10:01 PM (169 Views) | |
| Steelstallions | Oct 30 2012, 10:01 PM Post #1 |
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The limits in the wind tunnel as far as i can make out are: - Full scale car only 4 hours in a 24 hour period,but you have to give up the 4 day straight line testing for it! Otherwise scale of up to 60% must be used. Why cannot the use 110% i.e. 10% bigger to get a better reading of the data? Or does scale always mean its got to be a lower scale? |
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| everythingoes | Oct 31 2012, 07:37 AM Post #2 |
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Not sure about the definition of scale, but the size of the model car and the size of the wind tunnel are correlated. To test a larger version, they'll have to have a larger wind tunnel. Something about the air bouncing off the walls and stuff. |
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