It gets even more arcane than that. During a rebuild or major work, they'll
also tape up every opening and lightening hole INSIDE the aircraft as well.
Air moving into the airplane will always find a way out, apparently, thereby
causing drag. Since you can't close up every gap on the outside, they block
up as many gaps inside thereby causing a dead end and no more drag.

Shawn
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:5Uz6d.131331$MQ5.70054@attbi_s52...
At Reno, all the Formula One and Sport class racers had every single
non-aerodynamic gap covered with clear tape.

Which got me to thinking, there are LOTS of non-aerodynamic gaps on my
Pathfinder.

The stuff looks like basic, clear packing tape. Anyone used this stuff?
Is
there any benefit at all, or is it one of those "over 200 mph" things,
like
the spoiler on my Mustang?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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