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Originally Posted by aerohead
None of the 'conventional' trailers addressed drag reduction other than attempting to hide within the wake of the tow vehicle.
I'd already had reasonable success with the first two trailers by partially streamlining them and I figured Alan's trailer,or the one Volvo had brought could have extended their 'hybrid' generator fuel even further if the trailer itself was properly streamlined.
It would be the aerodynamic equivalent of xerisscaping a home's yard so as to shade it from direct solar gain in the summer,or adding thermal insulation to it's envelope so as to allow the air conditioning system to shed part of it's load,providing the same cooling level with less energy.
In engineering the term to describe this is load avoidance.
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As to the images,I apologize.I've been moving so much paper around that I've misplaced my original notes to myself for Photobucket.We managed to get the pictures up,but not like earlier posts where each image appears,with the enlargement bar atop it.
I don't know how to fix it right now.It seems like every time I come back to the computer,some change has been made and I no longer know how to navigate.I simultaneously love and hate computers!
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Phil, from Photo Bucket right click on an image and "copy image location." Doing that on your first link I get the address.
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled-10.jpg
Now in your EM reply click "insert image" (yellow mountain/planet icon in toolbar) and past address there. EM does the rest and you get this.
The "click to enlarge" banner is automatic (if needed). The image still lives on PB so if you take it down, move, rename, etc then EM would stop showing it. Otherwise pretty straightforward.
Rock on!
Bob