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Old 10-21-2022, 05:33 PM   #48 (permalink)
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air curtains

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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Attn: aerohead. Maybe this is the best thread to high-jack.

Recently there was a post [citation needed] about a car that used relatively small high-mounted canard dive planes as vortex generators in front of the wheel well to get similar benefit to an air curtain. Plausible?
I'm probably not the one to talk to about air curtains.
I'm still advocating for skirts at all wheels, since the automakers still say they're the best solution, drag-wise.
And the $4,000 / hour to develop and 'prove' curtains is kind of a buzz-kill.
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