Intuition was the name of Buckminster Fuller's sailboat. He seemed favorable toward it.
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I am familiar with Coanda, and his research, and his airplane based upon his theory, which never made it off the ground.
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The way I got the story he was trying to take off and looked behind him and the tail was lit on fire by a hokey afterburner arrangement, because the exhaust was following the contour of the fuselage. It made one hop over a wall instead of crashing into it, so he survived to have his name attached to the discovery. [citation needed]
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The Coanda effect is also used by the so-called ‘bargeboards’, aerodynamic appendages typically sited between the trailing edge of the front wheels and the leading edge of the sidepods (see Figure 7). Bargeboards are used to guide turbulent air from the front wing wake, away from the vital airflow underneath the car. In addition, the lower trailing edge of a bargeboard creates a vortex which travels down the outer lower edge of the sidepod, acting as a surrogate skirt,
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I'd call that over-thinking.
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Coandă effect - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coandă_effect
The Coandă effect (/ ˈ k w ɑː n d ə / or / ˈ k w ć-/) is the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface. It is named after Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, who described it as "the tendency of a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice to follow an adjacent flat or curved surface and to entrain fluid from the surroundings so that a region of lower pressure develops."
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