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Old 06-06-2014, 08:29 PM   #104 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Nice. Did it fold away or roll away?

Thanks for adding the link. I skimmed the first and last of it and found this in the last post. I'd missed it before.

Patent US6959958 - Aerodynamic combination for improved base drag reduction - Google Patents

It would appear that a box or detached plate perimeter should fall on the Template line. Other experimenters tested a detached plate with the middle 50% removed.



I interpret the single data point as a mod to their best performing candidate.
It folds away. Look up US Pat# 8,408,626 to see how it works. Just got the patent issued last year and it was my first total Pro Se effort which I am proud of.

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