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aerohead · 03-11-2020, 04:38 PM

I GOOGLED it and found the NASA site.Aircraft are ruled by skin friction.If they can lose the rear architecture of the plane,they can shave a lot of skin friction off the plane.They've already failed at a vectored-thrust jet,chasing the same goal.McDonnel Douglas/Hughes Aircraft chased the same with a tail-rotorless MD 500 variant helicopter.None of this is germane to automobiles.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 15,895 Thanks: 23,972 Thanked 7,222 Times in 4,649 Posts	Prandtl-D I GOOGLED it and found the NASA site.Aircraft are ruled by skin friction.If they can lose the rear architecture of the plane,they can shave a lot of skin friction off the plane.They've already failed at a vectored-thrust jet,chasing the same goal.McDonnel Douglas/Hughes Aircraft chased the same with a tail-rotorless MD 500 variant helicopter.None of this is germane to automobiles. __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/