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Old 07-03-2014, 10:15 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
1/32nd seems a little small-scale for wind tunnel testing. I've got a 1/18th New Beetle (in Cyber Green) somewhere, and the pros generally go to 1/4th or 1/5th.


have you looked at the work of Yoshi Suzuka? He uses 1/24th.
It must work at *very* high velocity, in order to compensate for the small scale. The sensors look to be pretty sensitive. Pretty darn cool!
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