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Originally Posted by AndyL
Has that ever been published? I'd love to see it  |
General Motors staff published an SAE Paper on it in 1963 I believe it was.They used the Guggenheim Aero Lab at Cal Tech to do model studies.
I believe that paper is mentioned over at the full-boat-tail-trailer thread.
With Texas Tech's video footage you can just observe what the smoke does,given different leading edge add-on devices.
In elevation profile,the bulbous nose wins.And from data also at the above mentioned thread,the bulbous nose wins in crosswind hands down.
All this is in Hucho's books also.