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Old 05-11-2020, 11:54 PM   #60 (permalink)
JulianEdgar
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Originally Posted by TimRogers View Post
The only downside of this testing data is that Lockheed Marietta's wind tunnel is not a rolling road type. Without the wheels turning, one of the most important factors of how the turning wheel interacts with the windstream is not represented in the test.
It's actually even worse than that because that car wouldn't have had an underfloor design anything like most of today's cars. (Tesla found the undercar flow influenced the best design of wheel.)
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