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Old 10-22-2011, 08:01 AM   #177 (permalink)
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I did my very rough aero testing with 5 leaf blowers.

If I had done it outside (on a still day) it would have been better; since the air was recirculating around by the end. Leaf blowers cannot get parallel and equal velocity air flow over the model. You really do need a tunnel of the proper cross section and for a scale model the velocity of the air has to be proportionally higher.
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