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Old 09-18-2020, 06:35 PM   #3562 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
I suspect the mirroring is a simplification to remove the underbody as a consideration.

There's a lot going on in the center of that full body.

Agreed the spats and breakover angles are in order. I'm still a fan of the Magic B*tt Trumpet.
The relative motion between underbody and ground is just one of the myriad complications in fluid motion. The template is only the very beginning of wisdom, not the whole science.
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