Body plan taper and drag
 

*Part-1
*This is way overdue,but it's taken time to accumulate images.I'm just going to post 'em randomly and we can talk about them later
*from Koenig-Fachsenfeld (Kamm)
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_23.jpg
*lowest drag 2-D profile (Horner)
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled4_26.jpg
*Mair's boat tail (either plan or elevation)
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled2_31.jpg
*Walter Korff,Lockheed
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled20_14.jpg
*Rolf Buchheim,Volkswagen
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled18_16.jpg
*Tatra
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ad2/scan28.jpg
*Summers Brother's Goldenrod,1965
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled12_18.jpg
*Paul Jaray,circa,1924
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_20.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_19.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled4_20.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled5_21.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_17.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled6_18.jpg

Part-2
 

*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled3_20.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled6_17.jpg
*FKFS,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled6_16.jpg
*Baby template car for DARKO,2016
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled_2.jpg
*Walter Lay,University of Michigan,1933
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled16_11.jpg
*FKFS 2-D bodies,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled12_14.jpg
*Paul Jaray,circa 1922
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_14.jpg
*Paul Jaray,circa 1922
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled6_15.jpg
*Paul Jaray,circa 1922
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled5_16.jpg
*VW XL1
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled16_10.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled13_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled12_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled11_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...itled10_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled9_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled8_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled7_12.jpg

Part-3
 

*NASA 1980
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled1_14.jpg
*AUDI
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled6_10.jpg
*Lamborghini Countach
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled5_10.jpg
*Lexus LS
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled4_10.jpg
*Nissan
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled3_12.jpg
*Honda Accord
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled2_12.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2233.jpg
*GM EV1
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2232.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2231.jpg
*Tesla S
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2230.jpg
*early Golf/Rabbit
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2229.jpg
*Edison-2
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2228.jpg
*Honda 2000 Gen-1 Insight
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/2227.jpg
*1978 M-B C-111 III short-tail Cd 0.195
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled1_10.jpg
*2012 Ford Probe X,Cd 0.152
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled47.jpg
*2006 Daihatsu UFE-III,Cd 0.168
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled46.jpg
*1978 M-B C-111,III long-tail,Cd 0.178
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled45.jpg
*Toyota Prius
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled42.jpg
*MG EX-181,Cd 0.12
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled14_6.jpg
*1934 Dymaxion Car,originally estimated at Cd 0.25
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...titled12_7.jpg
*1922 Wolfgang Klemperer,Cd 0.15
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled7_7.jpg
*1996 Honda Dream III
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled9_7.jpg
*1938-9 Schl'o'wagen Cd 0.186?
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled3_7.jpg
*1922 Paul Jaray,Cd 0.13
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled1_7.jpg
*1981 VW Drop car,by Buchheim et al.
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled2_6.jpg
*another VW by Buchheim et al.
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled1_6.jpg

You have the power to go back and edit the posts to enumerate them. I suggest 1.1 through 3.26. So we can talk about 'em later.

Where's the Beetle?

Part-4
 

*1978 M-B C-111 III short-tail Cd 0.195
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled4_5.jpg
*FKFS circa late-1930s
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...tled1-11-1.jpg
*http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled24.jpg
*Elliott G.Reid,Stanford University,1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled5-3.jpg
*1969,R.G.S.White,MIRA,Cd 0.245
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...2/12-062-1.jpg
*1963,Walter Korff,Lockheed,Cd 0.20
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled331.jpg
*US Patent
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled330.jpg
*1987 Renault V.I.R.A.G.E.,Cd 0.29
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled329.jpg
*circa 1924,A.Persu Patent drawing
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...d2/06-2410.jpg
*FKFS wind tunnel model,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/.../2-289-142.jpg
*FKFS wind tunnel model,circa 1935
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/.../2-289-141.jpg
*FKFS illustration,circa 1935 (Fachsenfeld)
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...85x11Scan2.jpg
*Phil Knox CRX project,1991
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...d2/Scan101.jpg
*2-D drag,from Hoerner,1951
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...head2/8-24.jpg

edit/Beetle
 

*yes,I can add errant data.:)
*I only have a crappy,low res. plan-view of the Beetle and it probably wouldn't serve us well.:(

To what purpose?

Beetle
 

Here's a link to a better image than what I have
http://car-blueprints.narod.ru/image...-1300-1963.gif

I'm waiting to learn the bounds of discussion. Everyone else just Thanked you and moved on.

Old Tele man -- your joke lives on in email notifications.

Big words make me sleepy!