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aerohead · 01-31-2022, 11:46 AM

https://ecomodder.com/forum/member-a...vector-hpv.jpgAeronautical engineer Al Voight designed the fully-enclosed VECTOR in the early 1980s, if memory serves me.
VECTOR measured Cd 0.11.
That tail truncation is really costing you, although you'd need to run the numbers on a 'Lange-Heck' and see if you could live with the cost to do the modification.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,391 Thanks: 24,469 Thanked 7,409 Times in 4,800 Posts	Cd 0.37 https://ecomodder.com/forum/member-a...vector-hpv.jpgAeronautical engineer Al Voight designed the fully-enclosed VECTOR in the early 1980s, if memory serves me. VECTOR measured Cd 0.11. That tail truncation is really costing you, although you'd need to run the numbers on a 'Lange-Heck' and see if you could live with the cost to do the modification. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/ Last edited by aerohead; 01-31-2022 at 11:54 AM.. Reason: add photo link