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Old 12-11-2009, 01:39 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Ford publishes a yaw-averaged Cd ( they'll yaw the car up to 8-degrees in the tunnel )when they claim a Cd.
This is a good point. In these parts, it's not at all unusual to have a 40 mph or so crosswind - and anyone who's flown small planes into tight fields knows that a bit of slip is a darned good way to bleed off altitude/airspeed in a hurry. So I wonder what that 0.28 Cd straight into the wind becomes when the effective wind's at 30 degrees?
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