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Old 09-15-2015, 05:52 PM   #11 (permalink)
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The Ford Tri-Motor was all corrugations on the fuselage sides, but because the corrugations didn't taper the laminar flow was trashed and the result was higher drag. It might work better on ground vehicles.

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Hydrogen is a red herring. The sooner we ignore it, the sooner we get to real solutions.
We could mix it with carbon. There's a lot of that in the atmosphere.

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