DESIGN HINTS

ENIGMA : SIMULATOR AIR DRAG COEFFICIENT 0.012 (Note:This car designed to meet the 200 sq.cm. transverse panel requirement.) HELI ...

CARBO TRUDIS: SIMULATOR AIR DRAG COEFFICIENT 0.0039 NFG : SIMULATOR AIR DRAG COEFFICIENT 0.007 (Note:This car won the 2008 Natio ...

EFFECT OF WHELLS AND GUIDES ON DRAG In order to show how important apparently small items can be when it comes to air drag, wind ...

COMPLETE CAR : SIMULATOR AIR DRAG COEFFICIENT 0.008 CHASSIS ONLY (SHOWN HERE STILL ATTACHED TO CAR) : SIMULATOR AIR DRAG COEFFIC ...

APPENDIX L: CAR SHAPE AND AERODYNAMIC DRAG To evaluate the importance of aerodynamics to car performance, two models were constr ...

Note: The drag figures shown are the actual drag in Newtons on the model. The coefficient for the simulator is obtained by scali ...

VEHICLE TYPICAL Cd MEASURED Cd Bicycle rider upright 1.1 Large truck 0.95 “The Block” 0.738 0.682 “Ute” 0.5 “Modern Car” 0.3 Str ...

The AIRSHIP on wheels ready for testing Overall view of wind tunnel set up ...

Detail of bearing fitted to wheel In order to perform testing with the models on a floor, the fixed wheels on the models had sma ...

In conclusion there is a difference in drag when tested on “a stick” and “on the track”, but these tests results indicate there ...

THE BLOCK STRETCHED AIRSHIP APPENDIX M: ...

MODEL SOLAR CARS AND AERODYNAMIC LIFT Over the years I have often had the suggestion made to me that significant lift or down fo ...

but things are getting tight and while we are about it do not forget the massive increase in drag associated with such a high an ...

TEMPERATURE AND LIGHT LEVELS In support of the suggestion in section 8. ELECTRONICS that an electronics unit can be set at a com ...

(While the graph above depicts Torque vs RPM and within this article I talk about power, you probably think I am crazy, but Torq ...

Firstly the same Solarex SX 10 Panel was placed in 75% Sun and its temperature measured every 5 seconds up to1/2 a minute then e ...

APPENDIX O: BIOGRAPHY OF A WINNING CAR Syndal South Primary School car “SCORPION” 2009 This article was written to show just how ...

The big question is why was this team so successful? There is no simple answer but the following points all contributed to the s ...

Because of the limited manufacturing facilities available at Syndal South Primary the car construction had to be simple and util ...

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