Author Topic: Airfoil Car  (Read 3500 times)

Offline Nexus1171

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Airfoil Car
« on: December 16, 2014, 01:42:43 AM »
I've seen some car designs that were based heavily on airfoils (particularly those designed for ultra-efficiency): I'm curious if you based a cars contours on a negative incidence wing made it as wide as the law would allow (92 inches) and used a radiator type system like you'd see on combat planes in WW2 (trying to exploit the meredith effect with side or top-scoops and exhaust pipes to help pump the duct)

Offline raafif

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Re: Airfoil Car
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2014, 04:57:28 AM »
Hmmm,  Change the law on vehicle width .... start with a flying-wing kit .... but the roads would need to be much,  much wider ;D ....

Offline elmayerle

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Re: Airfoil Car
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2014, 06:51:43 AM »
"He's not driving too fast, he's flying too low!"

Offline Story

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Re: Airfoil Car
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2017, 07:03:48 PM »
Related: the 1915 Sizaire-Berwick "Wind Wagon"


Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Airfoil Car
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2017, 06:01:05 PM »
"He's not driving too fast, he's flying too low!"

That sounds like me in my younger years! :D
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."