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Article: Flying the flag's a drag; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2004
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QUESTION Is there any way of calculating the increase in fuel consumption caused by the drag on all the motor vehicles flying the flag of St George?
AERODYNAMICISTS for MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association), the world's leading independent provider of vehicle design, development and testing, use our wind tunnels and sophisticated computer methods to try to minimise drag and optimise the overall stability and performance of cars, trucks and buses.
We recently conducted a relatively simple test to see how windowmounted flags affect the drag of a car. We had to make some generalisations, because various cars are affected differently.
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