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Old 12-29-2020, 05:54 PM   #80 (permalink)
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between the lines

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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar View Post
Yep, according to you, it's such a critically important thing and it was just written "between the lines"!

How extraordinary. You'd think there'd be chapter after chapter on it wouldn't you?

Dimensional analytics. Sounds so much better than "make guesses from a template".

(And which template? There are five, all with quite different shapes. Gosh, this could get really confusing. Just as well it's not real, isn't it?)
Yes, which brings us back to perspicacity.
Every element of the 'template' is spelled out by Hucho in a constellation of dots.
He provides the premise.
He provides the image.
He provides the empirically-derived quanta.
There is only one which embodies the drag minimum, in the context of an actual vehicle that a driver could see out of.
He explains the application.
We're talking about a 'basic' body, not a 'complex' body.
They're real alright.
And the future, if we want really low drag.
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