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Fred wrote:

Think sportsman class as this is going to be the place where innovation shows
first.  Unlimited class is not so unlimited after all.  Pistons only.  Beat
them with a rotary and listen to the yowls of complaint.  :)

The Lancair won this year lapping about 320 mph with about 2.2 square feet of
flat plate equivvalent area and about 500 horsepower.  So if you get the
frontal area down to about 1.1 square feet (approaching Nemesis) you would do
the same on 250 horsepower.   Gets the mind working, doesn't it?

Fred Moreno

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