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The blackish objects in the cross-over ducts are the two radiators. They'll cool the engine, and the heating of the air will serve to provide more counter-force to counteract side-winds.
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This could work with careful engineering. Your proof of concept it the P-51 Mustang. But if you have to add cross-section to accommodate the internal ducts, it's self-defeating.
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The venturi scoop at the front provides cooling air to the engine compartment. Its warm air and the engine exhaust are discharged at the rear of the Kamm tail to "fill the void" and lessen rearward drag.
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Pursuant to what aerohead said, the Edison2 (an X-Prize contender), and Shauberger's trout submarine, had the cooling air vented through a gill slit at the max body width, where the air is moving the fastest. Exhaust into the wake though, it's corrosive and dirty.