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Book illustrations

Charts, illustrations of aero concepts

ice cream cone

egg and sugar cube

GM's Sunracer (top) demonstrates low drag signature with Cd 0.12 compared with typical passenger car with Cd 0.30

Ancient water flow carves out perfectly streamined island on Mars

Just for giggles

tractor trailer configuration

Ideal nose for bus

big rig aero

'Inernal Boattailing'; As flow will separate around the aftbody of a car which has too much curvature,so will flow inside a pipe whose sidewall...

Windtunnel depiction of very 'dirty' early passenger car

Gustav Alexander Eiffel's 'ice cream cone' 20-degree tapered cone with hemispherical leading edge

aero drag formula - alternative equation for calculating aero drag

Texas Tech takes pickups into the windtunnel for surprising results, hello aeroshell!

NOTE: This data is for bias ply tires.Loads are up to 18 % less with radials

aero timeline

R.G.S.White cont'd

R.G.S.White's recipe for low drag cars ( 1968)

Walter Korff ( Lockheed) ideal low drag cooling system

Jaray's work of 1922 tops the list with Cd 0.15

3-views of same wing at different angles of attack.Far left is stalled,far right 'clean'

perfect streamlined shape in perfect streamlined flow

optimum nose configuration

distribution of drag

boat tailing effect

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