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Originally Posted by aerohead
...by moving a structure away from the body sides,it encounters slower air,reducing its drag due to the velocity-cubed relationship to aerodynamic power,and also interference drag associated with it.
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*This can also reduce aero-acoustic effects,minimizing wind noise.
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So on my Odyssey which has large flat mirrors (almost like a pickup truck's) and which fold inwards rotating on a vertical pin it would actually be better aerodynamically to fold them horizontally? The folded frontal area would be exactly the same but the proportion that is right near the body of the van would be less and the proportion further away would be greater. (All other things being equal, etc.)
And does it matter if they are directly on the A-pillar?
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