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THE WAKE

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What the Car Leaves Behind: The Wake Matters More Than the Nose (AeroNEC · 4) A few years back the MythBusters tucked a car ten feet behind a lorry on a track and watched the fuel economy climb by nearly 40%. Terrifying to do, illegal to copy, but the number was real — and it … Read more

DOWNFORCE

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How to Glue a Car to the Ceiling: Downforce Explained (AeroNEC · 2) Remember the bit in Men in Black where Agent K flips the Crown Vic onto the roof of the Queens-Midtown tunnel and just keeps driving, upside down, lights flashing? Sci-fi nonsense, obviously. Except the physics underneath the gag is real, and a … Read more