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Old 04-17-2020, 01:59 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Chonk_Master View Post
Ah, interesting. Is that kind of an observed average?
For the few times where actual frontal areas have been published recently,they're in the 85% of gross area region,as tires get wider.
A forgotten analog,photographic technique for acquiring Af, is by weighing the (net) 'cross-section' of the vehicle,cut from a photograph of it,then comparing its weight to that of the total weight of the (gross) cross-section it was cut from.A laboratory-grade scale is required.
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