In article .net,
cavelamb himself wrote:

I personaly can't argue either way.

Both answers seem to have merit - and then not...

But those webbed tailgate thingies have GOT to increase drag.

Don't they???

They re-visited the tailgate issue in a later episode, and re-busted
tail gate down being more efficient, but found that the mesh thingie
increased mileage. Still questionable since they were doing the
tests on public roads with traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...ailgat e_Down


Necessary aviation content: They also tested the 'jealous wife
shredded the plane with a chain saw' myth.

http://kwc.org/resources/2006/mbnew/sp.photo.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...Shredded_Plane

John
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John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/