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Originally Posted by aerohead
* The streamlined body represented by the 'template' is a fastback.
* A streamline body, taken to its conclusion, possesses zero flow separation.
* A streamline body recovers all static pressure, less what's lost to surface friction drag.
* The static pressure acting on a streamline body is nearly identical at nose and tail. It's incapable of generating lift.
* You've never analyzed a streamline body.
* None of your measurements are germane to streamline bodies.
* Hucho is a champion of streamline bodies, the only path to really low drag. Germany thought enough of his work that it's in their national museum.
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I am sorry but the idea a streamlined shape develops no lift is supported nowhere. It's kinda so obvious that one doesn't even know where to begin. An aircraft wing, well designed, has zero flow separation. But it develops lots of lift (I need to state that, lest Aerohead has a theory that planes don't fly because of lift.)
Again, where is even one peer-reviewed, published example that shows a 'template' shaped car having zero lift? That is, measured front and rear lift coefficients being zero?
After all, if this has all been well known since the 1930s, there must be heaps of cars you can show us as examples, no?
(Standby for Aerohead to change the proposition, write a huge screed of irrelevancies, misquote Hucho 2nd edition, or say that it's all a fashion conspiracy that car manufacturers don't produce slippery cars. Then after that, California98Civic will post that he truly believes.)