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Old 08-05-2012, 03:21 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by arcosine View Post
A long cylinder has a cd of .82 and a streamlined body .04. If the long cylinder is placed inside a streamlined body, the drag will be lower even thought the frontal area is greater. An extreme example.


Thanks for that info. Arcosine I suspected that to be the case, but does this scale up ?
If you had a box shape as large as a jumbo jet and added a teardrop top on it you would have to add so much frontal area that it would cancel out any benefits eh ?

Dumb question yes, but I'm .....well ....dumb.
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