Anderson Ed wrote:

Hey guys, I know gathering empirical data is crucial to making
meaningful decisions and think the idea of the truck tested is ingenious
- however, I can just picture this 198x truck screaming down the desert
(or some back dirt road) in a cloud of dust with two or three drag
chutes bellowing behind, with (pick one) somebody hanging out a window
adjusting the manometer tubes,  holding a smoke generator in front of
the radiator to check for laminar flow, straining to release one of the
drag chutes with yells being exchanged between driver and assitant and
blowing past a state trooper.  He, agog, reaching for his radio to
report a ...... (fill in the blank). Sorry! Couldn't help myself, devil
made me say this {:>}.  Ok, I'm serious again - really!

Ed Anderson

Not something you would do in the North East Ed. I guess you will just
have to contend yourself with shoveling snow. Sorry :-)

We have this sort of fun all the time out here in the West :-)
Heck, how do you think we come up with all these weird airplanes?

Paul

 
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