Working To Turn Up The Heat On The Wasabi Cassutt
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 07:47AM 
Check out the Wasabi blog to see the all new cowling progress on the Cassutt racer
Oshkosh 2009 is right around the corner. In fact, if I squint a little I can see it up there waving us in! And you know, it's gonna be the best Oshkosh ever! But anyway, that also means the Reno Air Races are fast approaching too (September 16-20). For those racing at Reno, that means work, work, work!
If you listened to my podcast interview with Elliot from Wasabi Air Racing, you know he's been working on his Formula One class Cassutt to improve the airplanes race speeds. He just posted some pix on the Wasabi blog showing the progress being made on an entirely new cowling and intake system. The picture above shows it really beginning to come together.
It's easy to underestimate just how much work goes into designing and fabricating a front end to a race plane that reduces drag to a minimum while also allowing enough cooling and induction air... but not so much that you are just making more drag. It's a big project! It'll fun to see what the results are at Reno.
Elliot is also presenting a forum at Oshkosh on Thursday July 30 from 1-2:15pm titled "Fly High, Fly Slow, Turn Left? - From air race fan to air race pilot--An engineer's perspective on becoming a formula one race pilot."
Find out what it takes to start from the ground up in air racing. I know I'll be there to check it out!
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