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Originally Posted by tasdrouille
Just a note. With the current design shown in the pics, the A-pillar vortexes will still be present and they will be pretty strong. You need to round those corners off in order to minimize drag.
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I used a plexiglas airplane canopy as a model in desiging my false windshield using rounded curves in the area of the false windshield's A-pillars.
Interestingly, if you look at some of those 1930's German aero cars, a number of them have rounded A-pillars even though they still had a stepped windshield. They didn't have the technology in the form of glazing or fabricating skills in the 30's to produce the long sloping windshields that we see today and even aircraft built in the 1930's had stepped windshields.