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Originally Posted by botsapper
The auto design and textiles industries at work.
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I love the architectural connection in that first video.
A previous patent quote:
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The device minimizes the strength of the separation in the base and wake regions of the ground vehicle, thus reducing drag.
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I think that the patent works minimizing the strength of separation because the pressure is lower, and not higher across the screen material.
aerohead
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a void cannot support flow..............a perforated skin....cannot perform the pressure recovery
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Perhaps the lack of pressure and adherence to the surface is not an issue because the air will still flow along a surface which in parallel appearances is solid, and not perforated as it looks to be at right angles.
It is still healthy to question, right?
I'm sure
aerohead is right, and that failed experiments don't get published as often as successful ones, so we might not find about about this concept that way.
However I think it may be worth doing at least a hair dryer experiment, if nothing else to get it out of my system so I can move on.