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Old 08-24-2015, 09:33 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
I've been chipping away at RV drag stuff,and Hucho published a work by R.Barth in Germany who tested a series of 'Twinkies' in the wind tunnel.
If you consider them as the body of an AVION,then:
*an 11-footer is Cd 0.38
*an 18.5-footer is Cd 0.230
*a 27-footer is Cd 0.205
*a 38-footer is Cd 0.200
*and a 45.5-footer is Cd 0.205.
So your 35-footer is near the bottom of the drag bucket for these shapes,making it the lowest drag length.
That's just the basic body shape, correct? Real numbers would be higher?
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