Recent content by Yimmers

I didn't mean my post as a rebuttal or a correction. I have struggled to understand and write what I wrote for some time, and now that it has started coming out of me I can't stop. :)

Placing the radiator inside the fuselage instead of tacking it on to a wing or embedding it in a wing allows a smaller inlet to feed a much larger radiator, provides the enclosed volume necessary for the high velocity inlet air to expand and slow down, allows the air to spend more time in...

If someone has already made this point, I apologize. Five hundred cubic feet of air raised 200 degrees F per second corresponds to 47 horsepower. Forty-seven horsepower into the system and 47 horsepower out. If the so-called Meredith effect could make 100% use of the temperature rise of the...