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Basjoos,
Thanks for those words on lights and license plate placement. That is helpful to anyone contemplating any form of boattail.
I have a question. I've been watching the various efforts in this thread to scientifically calculate, at least from one ref source, the appropriate angle of the top of a boattail. The angles that are being discussed seem much smaller than the aerocivic. I think I recall reading somewhere else that you said you modeled the boattail from the profile of a small sports aircraft. Certainly, I would be the last to argue with the success you have achieved. The configuration which you have designed is certainly easier to live with than some others that I have seen. My question is this - have you done any testing of the boattail using yarn tufts? I saw that Metro had done some such testing and had some "apparent" problems along the sides, blamed on mirrors, and along the bottom.
We all are in your debt for showing the way so keep up the good work!
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