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Old 01-13-2016, 01:25 PM   #1831 (permalink)
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Old 01-16-2016, 10:46 PM   #1832 (permalink)
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Viking-Series Cars – History | Vehicle Research Institute | Western Washington University


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Viking 40 (V40) is a fully carbon fiber vehicle built as a prototype to our 100+ MPG Viking 45, our entry in the X-Prize competition. V40 is built the be ultra-aerodynamic and ultra-lightweight (1080 lbs) while producing large amounts of power (est. 250 hp) from a gasoline powered, turbocharged Honda 4-cylinder engine. This vehicle was fabricated entirely by students from the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University.


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Old 01-18-2016, 09:55 PM   #1834 (permalink)
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More like a rising spiral?

A few years back I was thinking about places I could move to; and (pre-Fukushima) Bellingham, WA was high on the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester...ton_University

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Campus facilities include an electronic music studio, an air pollution lab, a motor vehicle research lab, a marine research lab, a wind tunnel, an electron microscope, and a neutron generator lab.[13] Western's Vehicle Research Institute has led Automobile Magazine to describe Western as "very possibly the best school in the country for total car design."[citation needed]
I figured I'd hang out in the bars that the students frequent and pick their brains. Or is it pique their brains
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Wow, that's a great legacy which this school has. Nice find Redneck.

Looks like the Viking-II (red car) and many of the others which followed were not afraid to let some air under the car. I suspect they were using the upside down wing body as a concept, but don't see anything in the text to support that theory.

A few more pictures, I was seeking out more Viking-40 images.

https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/blog/mediablog/7500


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More like a rising spiral?

A few years back I was thinking about places I could move to; and (pre-Fukushima) Bellingham, WA was high on the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester...ton_University



I figured I'd hang out in the bars that the students frequent and pick their brains. Or is it pique their brains
At least,find out where they got their windshields from.
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FYI, there's an SAE paper, 951904, about Viking 23. It says the CD is a coastdown derived 0.275. Their scale model suggested a CD of 0.19. Frontal area is 1.4177 meters. No mention of the windshield source...

There are some other SAE papers about some of the other cars...still reading....

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Front wind shield kind of reminds me of this.



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