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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The tails on the 50's and 60's car were never meant for reducing drag of course. They just came into fashion when one of the designers of an American motor corporation saw the double tail of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighterbomber. |
I checked out the link, at first thought it was oddly specific - guess not.
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Harley Earl arranged for several of his designers to view a YP-38 prototype shortly before World War II, and its design directly inspired the tail fins of the 1948–1949 Cadillac.[120]
The P-38 was also the inspiration for Raymond Loewy and his design team at Studebaker for the 1950 and 1951 model-year Studebakers.[121]
The whine of the speeder bike engines in Return of the Jedi was partly achieved by recording the engine noise of a P-38, combined with that of a North American P-51 Mustang.[122]
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