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Originally Posted by instarx
The danger of wingtip vorteces from landing aircraft wan't fully realized until the 70's or 80's.
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The air force became aware of this in the 50's once they started messing with large, heavily wing loaded jets. (notably the YB-70/F-104 accident). It didn't start becoming important in civilian aviation until the introduction of the Boeing 747 and other "heavies" into the airport environment, where the mix of smaller, lightly wing loaded aircraft and large heavy wing loaded "jumbos" created a safety problem that had to be studied and regulated.
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Originally Posted by instarx
Why all the resistance to a few new novel ideas being applied to aero in cars. Doesn't every little bit help? Maybe everyone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
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I don't have any resistance to these ideas. I was just pointing out that they are merely aerodynamic tricks to try to clean up an otherwise inefficient aerodynamic design (sort of like adding stall fences to an aircraft's wings to correct an aerodynamic deficiency) and that by themselves they won't turn the typical 0.36 Cd car into a 0.22 Cd wonder.