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Old 08-15-2017, 01:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Nice! That should be much better than the bare trike. I say build it as a version 1.0 and test it out. Sometimes simpler and doable is better than the optimal design that never gets built.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.

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