Re: Armadillo 4/18
Henry Spencer <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Russell McMahon wrote:
> The A4 / V2's vanes, which look to be carbon, appeared to hinge slightly
> BELOW centre - but they had an extension further into the exhaust at the
> bottom end and this would presumably have had an
> overall bottomwards bias. Fascinating to see that they were driven by
> sprockets and chains.
It's worth bearing in mind that many of the design details of the A4 were
quick first cuts, dictated more by schedule pressures rather than by
technical optimization. They didn't have time to refine the design the
way they would have liked to.
Henry Spencer
[email protected]