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aerohead · 01-06-2016, 07:04 PM

I think that you're going to see a bunch of vorticity due to the hard edges.
I'm with Frank,recommending radius'd edges everywhere.
You're kinda 1/2-scale,so maybe a 40mm radius minimum.

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