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Old 12-14-2023, 07:04 AM   #176 (permalink)
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Doped aircraft surfaces are I believe also are fully framed and airflow is only on one side of the fabric surface, not the case in the linked video. The fabric also is not stretched IMO, but more shrunk by the doping drying process.

That rear door contraption is right out of NASA spacecraft outer space unfolding mechanisms and likely equally expensive and fragile enough to never live past its first encounter with a loading dock.
The low hanging fruit ignored here is IMO, just completely cover the trailer roof with solar cells and incorporate regenerative braking for propulsion or auxiliary cooling for the trailer and be way far ahead of all the tweaks and gadgets in the slick (pun intended) produced video.
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