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Old 02-14-2010, 09:36 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Another interesting shape is logged today.

This is the second time this winter that this shape has appeared on the car, and this time a picture was taken before it melted and fell off.

The first picture shows a very interesting taper from the front tire, and is about the shape of something that I would expect to see from wind forces alone.



The second image shows just how "narrow" the front edge of the ice really is, and this surprised me a little bit.

Although this "pointy" shape has been seen before, it has not been on a car, but on the leading edge of the Yamaha TZ750 road racer fairing at Daytona in 1977. The leading edge of the fairing looked almost exactly the same. Yamaha must have done some wind tunnel testing on that old fairing.



This shape may make an excellent example of how to do this in foam/fiberglass when the time comes.



Jim.

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