JR @ CFS
01-16-2010, 03:31 PM
All,
I thought I would share this one with you as I thought it very relevant to what we do. This one came from Richard Noble, head of the Bloodhound project attempting to break the 1000mph landspeed barrier and more importantly educate and encourage thousands of kids in the process and get them interested in Engineering. I had the pleasure of sharing a meal with the driver of this car (a childhood hero of mine) and I can only describe him as a "very plucky Brit". Here goes;
"The sequence is simply that you start off with a concept, and a design and a shape of the car, you work it all out and get the CP in the right place and the CG in the right place, package it all together, and then you put it through the CFD process, which is the aerodynamics on computer, and we've got a five-man team on that. And then you get a really rubbish result, so then you've got to bin it and start it all again."
I thought I would share this one with you as I thought it very relevant to what we do. This one came from Richard Noble, head of the Bloodhound project attempting to break the 1000mph landspeed barrier and more importantly educate and encourage thousands of kids in the process and get them interested in Engineering. I had the pleasure of sharing a meal with the driver of this car (a childhood hero of mine) and I can only describe him as a "very plucky Brit". Here goes;
"The sequence is simply that you start off with a concept, and a design and a shape of the car, you work it all out and get the CP in the right place and the CG in the right place, package it all together, and then you put it through the CFD process, which is the aerodynamics on computer, and we've got a five-man team on that. And then you get a really rubbish result, so then you've got to bin it and start it all again."