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Old 01-06-2012, 02:18 PM   #17 (permalink)
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So, if you pull out the stops, you get something that looks like this:

(Photo of Nuna5 from gizmag)

No Hucho template upper curve, no blunt leading edge: just impeccably clean everywhere, not just at the tail.
Thanks. I appreciate all the replies to this thread, but I am still learning, which is why I ask. Isn't the Nuna5 solar racer partly shaped for maximum solar panel space? I imagine something like this...
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... if you pull out all the stops.

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I've already said this, but your contention that it all counts is correct. The Mooney 201 and 231 aircraft were famously clean, because of attention to a great many details.
Can you post a photo?
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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