Does Air Titan 2.0 have a place in NHRA drag racing

[Jeff]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nasca...en-more-drying-time-reductions-155639480.html

I realize this article is not entirely complementary of some of the marketing that has gone along with the Air Titan reign, but seeing the 2.0 version mounted in the back of a pickup truck has to bode well for the possible application to an NHRA track.

Anything to make the show more predictable and decrease waiting time.

 

[DrRocket]

Being a mechanical designer who's worked in a couple of R & D departments, I immediately recognized Air Titan for what it was, an R & D department proof-of-concept mule. The idea is to put the basic elements of the machine together to see if the thing does the job as expected. It did. I knew the next generation wouldn't look anything like the first, and it doesn't. But it DOES work. Now the challenge is to put it all on one chassis, and boost the performance. Usually, none of this testing happens in public, and usually the machine is somewhat disguised so that the source company isn't known.

In this case, the testing was done in a very public manner, and the NASCAR publicity folks got a little carried away in IMHO. I'm guessing the engineers involved probably weren't very happy about that.