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Old 09-12-2010, 11:43 PM   #144 (permalink)
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More renderings; these are done by Robert G. Scott:







I'll take a look at it, Patrick.

Edit: that is *very* little to go on -- it for an airplane and it is a schematic 2D drawing. The nose is pretty pointy, and the back looks all wrong... The biggest trick in transferring airplane design to cars -- is the ground plane and the wheels. The Boxfish had those "worked out", and still had amazingly low drag.

I've spent about 9 months on this design so far, and I have made (relatively) drastic changes along the way, but I can't throw it all out now. I fit 5 humans into a package barely larger than the Fig 15 shows, and mine has wheels, a drive train schematic, safety considerations, construction methods, etc.
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