Neil A. Kruiswyk wrote:

Paul,

    You missed my note about extrapolating the data to flight conditions....
(Otherwise you'd better find a pickup that will do 250mph.)

    If you can measure temp drop of the water through the rad given a
certain flow rate of water and measure the temp rise of air going through
the rad given a certain flow rate...  you can expand these numbers.

    Come to think of it...  Bruce has the right idea...  Go ask someone who
has already done the work.  I.e., Griffin. http://www.griffinrad.com

Neil

Good point Neil. But we would be a lot closer with our 150 HP boiler
(parachute)
and 100 MPH :-)

I just looked at their web site and I did not see anything 
off the shelf that would really be suitable. No engineering data
on the web site either. BTW it looks like they are going big
and thin. NASCAR car's have the frontal area for big and thin.

Paul

 
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