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Old 09-17-2008, 07:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Great video find! Thanks for sharing that!I would have preferred,Nina stay out from in front of the car,and just park a smoke rake there,so we could see more than one strata of air in an undisturbed flow field.Also,airspeed looks pretty slow.If its 20-mph or better,then they'll have turbulent boundary layer,hard to tell.From one of the monitors in the control room you could just barely glimpse the back of the car,with smoke spilling into the wake.Sure would have liked to see more of the aft flow! 30% drag reduction will mean 15% greater battery range.Nice!
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