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• IIUM OFFERS WIND TUNNEL FACILITY TO CAR MAKERS

  
  KERETA INFO | MAJALAH KERETA MALAYSIA Car Automotive News Reviews Tips & Details — Authority: 140
  IIUM wind tunnel during manufacturing process in 2007.Now we have another wind tunnel in Malaysia.As one of the largest wind tunnel in Malaysia, IIUM is offering car manufacturer in Malaysia to use their new wind tunnel facility.Read the full news from Bernama below.IIUM OFFERS WIND TUNNEL FACILITY TO CAR MAKERS.KUALA ...
  2 days ago

• Giro Advantage 2 Road Bike Helmet

  
  CyclingMarket.Com — Authority: 142
  Giro Advantage 2 Road Bike Helmet In-Mold construction offers lightweight and nearly indestructible performance. Razor sharp aerodynamics and competition-proven design deliver serious speed. Five Wind Tunnel vents with internal channels thrust cool, fresh air over and around your head while forcing heat and stale ...
  1 week ago

• GRACE e-bike boasts F1 technology

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 711
  Combining jet fighter technology with Formula 1 grade parts and German build quality, the GRACE street legal electric two-wheeler will start to be shipped in limited numbers next year. As well as offering a couple of city travel options, GRACE is also available in an off-road version too. The company has even ...
  1 week ago

• Stumped

  
  Mid-Georgia Mid-Pack Training — Authority: 414
  My last post presented my nice neat Chung results. Everything turned out exactly as expected once I measured my test hill and input the real numbers. But now I have a problem. A teammate tested with me on the same hill at the same time. He used a power tap just like me, he weighed in and weighed out after each ...
  1 week ago

• Chung TT Bike Results

  
  Mid-Georgia Mid-Pack Training — Authority: 414
  This plot shows the results of my recent Chung Method aerodynamics testing with my Cervelo P2K. I wore full aero gear (skinsuit, TT helmet, shoe covers, aero front wheel), but used my standard Powertap wheel on the rear. Because there is very little air resistance on an 8% climb at 150 watts, I was able to accurately ...
  1 week ago

• Chung Spreadsheet - Better Acceleration Calculation

  
  Mid-Georgia Mid-Pack Training — Authority: 414
  The CdAs I calculated for my road bike seemed a little lower than what I would have expected. After reading 106 miles on my Power Tap odometer yesterday for a Claxton Century course that was advertised as 104 miles, I figured the problem might be my PT odometer. I did a very accurate 3-revolution, weighted calibration ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chung Method Aerodynamic Testing

  
  Mid-Georgia Mid-Pack Training — Authority: 414
  Ive always wanted my own wind tunnel. Now I sort of have one. A couple of years ago I read Robert Chungs presentation , "Estimating CdA with a Power Meter," on aerodynamic testing using nothing more than a known road profile, internet weather info, a bathroom scale, and a power meter. I remember finding it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tractor Trailers with Tails Improve Fuel Efficiency by 7.5%

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 605
  The tapering tail is no secret among scientists for improving stability and fuel efficiency. Many high-mileage concept cars feature just such a design to smooth the aerodynamics of the vehicle. Now imagine applying the same concept to container trucks that log more miles in a year than most of us travel in five. A ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boat tail reduces truck fuel consumption

  
  Eideard — Authority: 445
  Aero boat tail reduces drag on freight haulers.
  3 weeks ago

• EarthSure announces AirRay: Sleek green car to run solely on solar and wind power!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  Unleashing the perfect green vehicle on to the roads is the dream of every automaker right now on the planet. There obviously is more reason than one for this very ‘green and clean’ outlook that automobile firms have taken up. Green in terms of the cash they make might also depend on eco-friendly features as we ...
  3 weeks ago

• BMW Builds Wing Too Big For Car, Slaps On Boat Instead [Boatlopnik]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 730
  BMW Oracle Racing unveiled what it believes to be the worlds largest wing on Sunday. Complete with flaps, the wing is a massive 190 feet long. The catch? It goes on a trimaran, not a car. [ Associated Press ] Photo Credit: Giles Martin-Raget/BMW Oracle Racing
  3 weeks ago

• Personal Watercraft Jet Ski By Miguel Angel

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 141
  With personal watercraft design evolving at what some may say is “a rate of knots”, a rather interesting concept has come to our attention. The brainchild of Spanish designer Miguel Angel, this cross between a Jet Ski and a body board is designed with speed and maneuverability in mind – but does the idea have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Under-Body Aerodynamics Aint Just For Looking Awesome [Car Design]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 730
  Excellent under-body aerodynamics will make the bottom of a car look as flat as the underside of a Hot Wheels racer. But looking awesome is obviously not the only purpose. Wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining the basic idea. You want to create an area of low pressure underneath the car, so that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boat tail reduces truck fuel consumption by 7.5 percent

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 711
  European tests have shown that a boat tail – a tapering protrusion mounted on the rear of a truck – leads to fuel savings of 7.5 percent. The fuel savings, which also means a cut in emissions, were realized by the boat tail dramatically reducing the drag caused by the lower-pressure effect that occurs in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• SLS AMG Development

  
  0-60mag.com — Authority: 587
  We’re actually real dorks when it comes to learning about all this stuff but we’ve proven that the internet only has an attention span of one day. So in place of rhetoric we’ve replaced them with videos. What A.D.D.? (Source: GermanCarScene )
  4 weeks ago

• Honda working on active aerodynamics

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 524
  Within five short years, Honda will be introducing the active aerodynamics technology on its next generation of cars. Nobuki Ebisawa, Honda’s R&D managing director, said that active aero would be introduced to get away from the high, cut off tail that characterizes cars such as the Insight and forthcoming ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sylvie van der Vaart gives BMW the hair test

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 132
  Former Miss Bundesliga and the Netherlands’ and Germany’s most famous WAG, Sylvie van der Vaart , puts the BMW convertible to the hair test in the company’s München wind tunnel. The full story is here on our website .
  4 weeks ago

• ARC Downforce Meter

  
  MotorworldHype — Authority: 135
  You read the title.  ARC is on the verge of releasing a downforce measuring device for the consumer market.  Now the next time someone asks you what that silly giant wing on the back of your car is for you can shove their face in the LCD screen of your new downforce meter!  It comes with [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Mythbusters vs. Common Sense part 2371213

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Why arent cars dimpled like golf balls if it increases fuel efficiency? In the most recent episode of Mythbusters , in testing the "a dirty car gets better mileage" myth, they seem to have proven that a car which has been dimpled like a golf ball gets better mileage than a car of the same weight and general shape ...
  5 weeks ago

• Extreme - Extended Indoor Skydiving Experience - £102.77 - Gift Experiences

  
  Link Fiend — Authority: 157
  £102.77 Info / Buy Product Information This totally unique experience allows to you experience the sheer exhilaration of skydiving, in a specially constructed wind tunnel, the likes of which are usually used to test the aerodynamics of F1 racing cars! After ...
  5 weeks ago

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