Quote:
Originally Posted by freebeard
I saw it applied to the Oldsmobile in 1961, and I'm set in my ways.  |
I think that is a fantastic example of that era's automotive stylists that wanted to be airplane designers but went into art/design because their right hemisphere dominated brains just could not cut the math.
They could of went into architecture, but I bet the math scared them just as much in that field.
Certainly no aerodynamicists were involved in the creation of that example above posted, but the stylists hearts were in the right place.
It has an uncanny resemblance to the diffuser in question, and I admit, you have a fantastic memory for the automotive obscurities.
http://company.airbus.com/company/he...line/1950.html
Quote:
Designed purely for speed, the N 1502 Griffon was a ramjet used for research purposes.....
...... in 1955, one of the world’s fastest aircraft.
|
Certainly a student of speed in design would have been inspired by such craft and their use of dihedral fins.