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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I don't know if I should take a bow, or try harder.
***Bravo! If that's your life purpose.you have accomplished it and can move on.
aerohead's posts are non-sequitur *footnotes.
*****I found a lot of valuable info in his footnotes. But if you don't see whole picture it would appear to be random blasts of consciousness when in fact they are useful pieces to solving the puzzle.
My specialty is identifying what's dumb. That doesn't mean dumb things aren't fun, or that a lot of thought can't be expended doing dumb things. In the end, it's all dumb, so enjoy the journey.
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***Anyhow to keep thison topic instead of calling it dumb. Towing efficiency isn't dumb any less than aerodynamics or hydrodynamics are dumb.
When I would street luge in 1975 against a much bigger taller standing opponent (Silver medalist Nelson Vales aka Cheetah or Tea-ba , I could draft him but he could not draft me,
The less turbulent wake an opponent left the more easily they could escape my dafting and the closer I had to be to lock in, sorta like having a shorter distance between the tow vehicle and the trailer.
If a person was standing, and they still,left little turbulent wake , some of them could be harder to draft when luging behind them than another liger, because they airstream heights did not match.
When locked behind someone in a draft, it is almost as if you were coupled like a trailer.
So all these things factor in , again coupling the two and making the undercarriage heights similar and roof heights similar and width all,should play in, but over all the trailer should slightly taper behind the tow vehicle , fart powered or gravity powered.
Fuel economy for any fuel would improve, and if you aren't interested in that , well ... I guess you just like typing gibberish. It's like taking Spanish about taco folding to someone who only speaks Korean who is interested in designing televisions , no one really cares.