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Old 04-28-2013, 04:40 AM   #120 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
That being the case, a pie-shaped cut would broaden the range of usable hulls. OTOH, the Template is more like a pontoon.



I dare you to take two surfing short-boards, mount one on the top of the roll bar, cut the go-karts length out of the other one and fashion front and rear bumpers—and then tension trampoline netting into a hyperbolic paraboloid between the two. It would act like a tinted window, shed rain and the permeability would slow the air but equalize the various high and low pressures on the front, back and sides of a Tromphenwagen shape.

Do you even have a go-kart? It would be the safest one on the block.
Here I was worried that nobody would understand my question, but luckily, Aerohead read it! I think that I understood his answer!

I am not sure about yours, though Freebeard. Why don't I just get a bunch of 4'x8' sheets of foamular?

Maybe I could use some kind of windscreen with transparent plastic or glass instead of something from a trampoline.

Tromphenwagen?

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