And my wife sometimes complains that I don't update my style and wardrobe often enough.....:eek: Getting back to the topic tho... Sorry that...
If you do a quick calculation on how much power it takes to drive even the most rudimentary car for 300 miles, even at low speed, you will find...
Both true, when metal parts get really big, it becomes difficult to insure that there are no significant flaws in the material that could become...
Yes, I can see that if you had very cheap (solar or wind) energy that you wanted to store, and retreived it via a burner with a recouperator...
Yes, of course, but I had in mind engines in the 200 - 2000 hp range, where SFC is in the .36 to .38 lb/hp-hr range, up to the maximum that one...
Being new here, I read this entire thread with interest, being primarily involved in propulsion engineering professionally, perhaps I can add a...
Pascal, Thank you, I think you just made my earlier point exactly....:) I looked up sandwich construction in Gerr's book, "The elements of...
I am amazed at some of the misconceptions being put forward here... There's nothing wrong with a cored hull, even below the water line, and in...
Normal wide open throttle rpm's for the Mercruiser 351 (233 hp version) is 4200, so if you are only getting 3000 rpm, something is wrong. If the...
Colin Campbell in his classic book "The Sports Car, It's Design and Performace" (when I first read it in the mid 1960's) said "As a means of...
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