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Posted by: DonTraver Jul 27 2007, 09:54 AM

My Doctor sent this to me, love it, wanna go for a ride.

http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/nascar/haas-builds-rolling-road-wind-tunnel-252670.php


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Posted by: BigDBass Jul 27 2007, 10:02 AM

It sure would suck if that thing locked up and you went flying through the air at 180mph!

Posted by: balljoint Jul 27 2007, 10:05 AM

Look at that treadmill! Wow. That plane will never get off the ground.


Very cool.

Posted by: sww914 Jul 27 2007, 10:17 AM

A video of a failure would sure be interesting!

Posted by: 9146986 Jul 27 2007, 12:14 PM

If you look closely you can see what look to be attachment cables.

Posted by: 914nerd Jul 27 2007, 01:20 PM

That's because the car is just being set on top of the moving belt and held in one place
Air is then being blown in from the front and the aero of the car can be looked at
The treadmill is a solution to laminar flow problems that occur in a wind tunnel with the vehicle simply sitting on unmoving ground
I don't believe the car is even running, just having the "ground" dragged along underneath it

Posted by: highways Jul 27 2007, 01:58 PM

$5 bucks says the plane never gets off the ground. The brakes will overheat... it doesn't even have wings, and the treadmill guy is bidding on ebay when he's supposed to be watching the temp gauge.

Posted by: URY914 Jul 27 2007, 02:23 PM

Seems a little odd that the guy is using a folding table and is 10' from a loud, moving piece of heavy equipment.

Posted by: BMXerror Jul 27 2007, 07:40 PM

It's Nascar... What more do you expect. It doesn't matter how much money or how many borrowed F1 engineers they throw at it, it's still a series run by a bunch of rednecks. My $.02
Mark D.

Posted by: 9146986 Jul 28 2007, 04:21 PM

Yes, so they can figure out how to turn in more than one direction!