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[Rick & Janet Norris]

Holy cow! That is exactly what happened to a 1969 Corvair, number 6000!
Local WV hero, Chuck Yeager was at the wheel when they dropped it but bailed 
before auguring in as it were. All them loonies out in New Mexico an 
Aridzona have been pickin up pieces of it for years thinking it's some of 
them alien space ships!
How'd ya know, anyways???

TLH

> I'm pretty certain that the terminal velocity of a corvair when dropped 
> from
> a B52 (as was the Bell X-1) will be significantly less than 390 MPH, but I
> suspect we'll have to develop an instrumented test to determine the facts.
> I suggest that we also measure cooling fan efficiency during the fall, 
> just
> in case someday someone wants to know how well a Corvair fan cools under
> terminal velocity.
> Joe