There was an AWST article from the middle 60's of a company using a liquid
rocket thrust chamber to simulate side gust loads. It was about 500 lbs F as I
recall. It got my interest because I had just discovered Sutton's RPE. There
was a picture of the TC bolted to the side of the car.
Ed Kelleher
At 06:45 PM 9/20/2019, you wrote:
I started my company as a result of my involvement in formula and GT car
racing and support from my automotive industry sponsors at the time. Years ago
I was approached by one of the Detroit automakers for an automotive, rocket
thruster concept. I believe they had been discussing the proposal with Korey
Kline previously. There was a test and development protocol to characterize
wind gust behavior of cars and trucks. The test procedure involves driving the
vehicle past a bank of large, high speed fans. The thruster concept was to
equip the test vehicles with a series of throttleable, start/stop hybrid
rockets in order to simulate vehicle reaction forces. It never went anywhere.
At first glance Im very skeptical about Mr Musks plan here for all the
obvious reasons. Im wondering if its another press release to boost stock
attention. One that may have technical issues that the layperson may not
appreciate. In response to some of his space travel plans and claims of late,
there appears to be significant criticism by members of the aerospace
engineering profession in this regard. The old saying, when the flag drops,
the bull shit stops, real race cars dont have doors comes to mind. Then
again, maybe Elon and company have developed technology the rest of us may
have overlooked.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
President/CEO
Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
<http://www.cesaronitech.com/>http://www.cesaronitech.com/
(941) 360-3100 x101 Sarasota
(905) 887-2370 x222 Toronto
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Galejs, Robert - 1007 - MITLL
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:17 AM
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Subject: [AR] Tesla Thruster Specs?
Tesla appears to be planning some sort of cold gas thruster option for their
new roadster model
See
<https://insideevs.com/news/350682/tesla-roadster-spacex-thrusters/>https://insideevs.com/news/350682/tesla-roadster-spacex-thrusters/
for example
but I cant find anything definitive about what these thrusters are planned
to look like. On one car enthusiast Facebook group I subscribe to, someone
was claiming that Tesla was planning to put ten 400 lb thrusters around the
vehicle which would be capable of firing for 90 seconds, which sounds silly
just thinking about the mass of nitrogen required.
Does anyone here have any information/informed-speculation they could share
about these potential Tesla thrusters?
Thanks,
Robert