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Old 09-16-2008, 01:06 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
Here's a dumb question. Airtabs are designed to target the trucking market. Could this mean that the Airtabs are "scaled" to work best with a shipping container? If yes, then maybe you could take the frontal area of a standard-issue shipping container and "downsize" the airtab to work with the frontal area of the Corolla.
There's mention of the air tab size being roughly the size of the boundary layer, so does the boundary layer vary much between a semi near the back and a passenger car near the rear window?
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