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Old 05-23-2010, 11:29 PM   #169 (permalink)
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lessons learned from the world of fluid dynamics are universal, but water is much less dense than air, so anything extrapolated from water to use on land would have to be exagerrated to be considered similar.

Also, somewhere common sense should come into play, surely.

And aerohead has been doing this stuff while many of us were babies. He deserves respect by virtue of earning it.
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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