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DoLittle
Jul 26, 2006
The Bugatti air racer is very pretty and unique:

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DoLittle
Jul 26, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

You can see the exact moment when people realized this by looking at the design of solar-powered cars. For a while they were all shaped like teardrops, then suddenly they all became flat planes with a tiny sharp-edged bubble for the driver.

Solar power cars do not just optimize for drag, but also for PV-cell surface area which lead to those flat shapes. Shell eco marathon winners on the other hand look like the example below. Once a shape with no flow separation occurs is found, it becomes is a question on minimizing minimizing surface area of the vehicle. Quite the opposite compared to the solar racers which also try to maximize the PV cell area.

DoLittle
Jul 26, 2006

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Can anyone identify the aircraft in this picture? It looks like a Sabre D, but the nose, canopy, and gear are all wrong. The picture's from a Japanese car nostalgia board, but that's not the JASDF roundel.


And that car is a Fiat 2100.

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