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Old 03-21-2011, 03:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
CapriRacer
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Well, MY gut says it depends on the angle of attack.

The body is going to act like a wing - and since the top is a longer distance than the bottom, you need to make sure the angle of attack cancels out the lift. There's no easy way to find this out, so you need to be looking else where for ideas on how to measure the lift. I don't think you can predict it easily without knowing what the full body is like.
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