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Old 08-22-2012, 10:03 PM   #17 (permalink)
drmiller100
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great study, and totally supports my argument on the angles.
if you look at page 75, they ran a CFD with 18.77 degrees, and a hard cut angle at the front, and hard angles at the sides, and the
FINAL RESULT IS EXACTLY AS I PREDICTED.
The minimum possible drag with no vortices.

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Douglas Robert Miller
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