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Old 06-15-2013, 07:59 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Should we move this conversation to http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post368673? This is not necessarily relevant to Rango318's thread.

From: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_163113.pdf

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The full boattail provided an average 32-percent reduction in drag at "highway speeds" whereas the truncated boattail provdied [sic] an average 31-percent reduction in drag as compared to the configuration having the blunt base.
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