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Old 12-16-2020, 06:07 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Kamm had three wind tunnels at the FKFS, including a rolling-road wind tunnel. What are the three Cds from those tunnels?
The first full-scale wind tunnel at FKFS opened in 1939--after the development of this car--which might explain why the drag coefficient of the real thing would have been calculated using coast down tests and why Kamm would have used that number in his published material.
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