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Increasing the speed of speed-skiers: a Cambridge engineering student explains
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Well-scripted 1:18 mins video [a model of its type] by Cambridge engineering student Robert Sills explains his work with British speed skiers to reduce their drag in the wind tunnel ... and on the Flying Kilometre track ...
http://youtube.com/v/KL14aSqWF8A
A short text about this on Phys.Org ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-aerodynamics.html
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Not sure where that is but it don't look like the Flying K which is in the Les Arcs 2000 bowl.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
It's funny how it doesn't look steep on film. I've looked down the (unpisted) Flying K at Les Arcs, and it's down a vertical wall* !! They're NUTS.
*OK it's not vertical but it's bloody steep.
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The track in the video is in Vars not Les Arcs.
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I posted a video a while back which was taken from the side of the Flying K during competition. Sounded like a military jet passing by
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, told you. I've been down the Flying K (unofficially) - didn't look like that, did look like a vertical wall, can't speak for the noise although I can assure you I did involuntarily 'jet assist' qwhich might be what you were hearing. It does make yer ring pucker a tad. Lost a friend to that run : (
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