ORIGINAL: brett65
ORIGINAL: bingo field
ORIGINAL: WestCoastFlyer
Nice airplane Gray Beard! Good job.
Don't be so fast in critically analyzing non-glassing and subsequent displeasure of not having a perfect mirror finish, because you may be on to something!
Aerodynamic properties of laminar vs turbulant flow indicate less drag when a thin layer of air flows and clings to a surface with slight indentations, thereby reducing drag due to decreasing the wake of the airflow.
In other words, I made some of that up, but it will probably fly better than the same plane with a perfect finish!
Ibelieve that is the principle used when designing a golf ball..
So will hail damage make my car get better mileage?
Probably only if you hit it with a giant sand wedge and got lots of backspin.
