How Water-Injection Cooling Enables Race Planes - Tested.com
Evaporative Cooling 1
Evaporative Cooling 2
During 8 minute race at 500 mph aircrafts consume about a gallon of avgas every 8.5 seconds and a gallon of cooling water every 5 seconds. It seems that a better solution could be cooling radiators with the compressed air. Higher air pressure will magnify Meredith effect even if some power will be consumed by cooling fan.
Evaporative Cooling 1
Evaporative Cooling 2
During 8 minute race at 500 mph aircrafts consume about a gallon of avgas every 8.5 seconds and a gallon of cooling water every 5 seconds. It seems that a better solution could be cooling radiators with the compressed air. Higher air pressure will magnify Meredith effect even if some power will be consumed by cooling fan.