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Subject:Re: aerodynamics, was: 101 MPH Vanagon!
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:50:08 -0700

Those pics are good. I'd be inclined to make a plug to fit the empty
luggage rack, but...

I have been bitten on the ass too many times when I have come to the
"obvious"  solution in fluid dynamics - making "largish and highish
speed" water tunnels (around 1 m/s ) - to be adamant that that will
smooth those streamlines.

Alistair

'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94

http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 18-Oct-04, at 2:01 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:

> I have not been following this thread, but if you like pictures to go
> with the numbers, try this
> for a view of the airflow over various vanagons:
>
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mwstebbins/
> detail?.dir=3415&.dnm=e349.jpg&.src=ph
>
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