Air Tabs? anyone use them
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think of it as an industrial size vortex generator.
did you notice the scale of airtabs in the mock-up they experimented with? to equate that experiment to a real truck and trailer the air tab would be about the size of a football.
would you be willing to put them on your trunk lid, wing. and rear roof?
I'd need bigger nads to do that, but let us know how it works, it has merit.
did you notice the scale of airtabs in the mock-up they experimented with? to equate that experiment to a real truck and trailer the air tab would be about the size of a football.
would you be willing to put them on your trunk lid, wing. and rear roof?
I'd need bigger nads to do that, but let us know how it works, it has merit.
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they claim to reduce drag on large empty spaces on/between large trucks/trailers and rv's. they in themselves do not reduce drag, they will create it. any object has some air resistance/drag, and these are no exception, unless they are somehow exempt from the laws of physics. the reason they reduce drag on applications like big trucks/trailers and rv's is they reduce what would be more drag in those otherwise turbulent pockets. the wind tunnel test showed what looked like reduced turbulence in between two objects, but furnished no proof for the rear of the vehicle.
so in reference to a car trunk lid or roof or something, i would image that they don't do much besides create drag. "large and ugly" is only a sidenote to that fact that they would offer little to no real benefit or even be a handicap on a typical passenger car.
Last edited by hokiruu; Jan 11, 2007 at 03:57 PM.