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Originally Posted by aerohead
The 'dumb' idea would be the one never mentiond.
The Germans researched fairings for machine gun barrels.You can see that 'angle iron' attached to the trailing edge helps.The smoother,graduated taper has lowest drag.Sheetmetal could be creased,and bent to form a nice fairing.A neighbor did this on his gyro-copter control surfaces.
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Where did you get a diagram of German machine gun barrel cd's......
With the radiator behind them tho as Kach22i mentioned may change the effects of air flow. So this may be past the point of diminishing returns for a front bumper except maby the edge if I decide to wrap around.
However I think this could be very effective if I make a rear bumper out of tube also. Then again I doubt I could build a less aerodynamic rear bumper then my current one if I made....
(Check the first post if you havnt seen the rear bumper)