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Old 01-06-2010, 06:16 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CTarna View Post
I always heard a fish's tail was was most aerodynamic shape.
If you could do the complete fish body,well then you'd have your ideal drag minimum.
If you must compromise in length ( as the real world pretty much imposes ) then it has been found through research that slicing the tail off,as you would with a loaf of bread,has an advantage over cutting the tail and then rounding the edges.
Dr. Kamm premised his body of research around this very tenet and it has been verified over and over in succeeding decades ever since.
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