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Old 07-21-2014, 02:05 PM   #50 (permalink)
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I remember reading here that for every time you cut the scale of a car in half, you have to double the speed of airflow to get accurate wind tunnel results.

1/1, 15mph
1/2, 30mph
1/4, 60mph
1/8, 120mph
1/16, 240mph
1/32, 480mph

So if you were going to test a 1/18 scale car in a home made wind tunnel, you'd somehow have to get the air going at around 300mph to have any usable results. Now I learn that my 4th grade science project wasn't very accurate.

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