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Re: Genesis results
by Royce Creasey
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ianpegram@... wrote:
>I think in the real world, it is the ability to close the gap behind the
>rider, that's just as important as the shape of the front of the vehicle, given
>all that we know about streamlining, airflow, boundary layer control,
>turbulence and drag etc
>
>Again this could be something to optimise in a wind tunnel, or computer
>programme, and at the level required, I suspect both would be equally expensive.
>
>Ride safe
>
>Ian (P)
>
>
>Yup. It's just big companies like Honad, the ones that can afford to
spend time in a tunnel, that don't understand that the tail is critical
- or maybe their engineers do, but the marketing department hasn't
"evolved" an understanding of that yet.
For normal, innovative type, people the planetary wind tunnel awaits,
it's an innovative idea, you drive the vehicle through some air, rather
than pumping air over the vehicle. This allows all sorts of other
development to be done too. We know this works, almost everyone who's
built an FF is ahead of Honad in development terms. And BMW.
Bit surprised you didn't get better than CDa of 3.5, that's prety much
what the computer said 002 made. Could be the front wheel assembly?
What fuel consumption do you get compared to a standard burger?
Royce
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>I think in the real world, it is the ability to close the gap behind the
>rider, that's just as important as the shape of the front of the vehicle, given
>all that we know about streamlining, airflow, boundary layer control,
>turbulence and drag etc
>
>Again this could be something to optimise in a wind tunnel, or computer
>programme, and at the level required, I suspect both would be equally expensive.
>
>Ride safe
>
>Ian (P)
>
>
>
spend time in a tunnel, that don't understand that the tail is critical
- or maybe their engineers do, but the marketing department hasn't
"evolved" an understanding of that yet.
For normal, innovative type, people the planetary wind tunnel awaits,
it's an innovative idea, you drive the vehicle through some air, rather
than pumping air over the vehicle. This allows all sorts of other
development to be done too. We know this works, almost everyone who's
built an FF is ahead of Honad in development terms. And BMW.
Bit surprised you didn't get better than CDa of 3.5, that's prety much
what the computer said 002 made. Could be the front wheel assembly?
What fuel consumption do you get compared to a standard burger?
Royce
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