I have noticed the same rivet pattern on C-130's. I thought MS stood for
modified streamliner. You take a streamliner and graft an old, small, foreign
car to the tail.
Bryan
drmayf wrote:
> After flow separation, it does not matter much if the surface is rough
> or not. I once looked at the Boeing C17 contender (competition with Mac
> Dac). The front of th eplane where it entered the air was all flush
> rivits and very smooth. Back behind the cockpit the rivits were all
> round headed because they did not need the flush surface, the flow had
> separated by then My car is blunt in the front so the flow is gonna
> separate somewhere about three feet in front of the front bumper, LOL.
> Then all the air will be turbulent flow. But things like wax, yes no
> maybe so. If I had a great paint job then IO would wax the snbot out
> of it, Like Neil said, if it looks good, it prolly is good. One of the
> aero things I will do next is put a very full pan under the car. The
> underneath is very very dirty. I don't think I will ever lengthen the
> wheel base to be like the other MS cars, though. This is a SUnbeam...not
> a baby streamliner.
>
> mayf, sweating a lot, been outside cutting the grass.
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