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July 24th 07, 03:42 AM
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Aerodynamics acording to Myth Busters!
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 -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ 
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