>If hit the same, a smooth >golf ball will not travel as far as a dimpled golf ball. >tape a grid of yarn tufts on the van surface and drive at your >normal cruising speed with somebody in a vehicle beside you video taping the >behavior of the tufts in the airflow. Once in Milwaukee I saw a Saab that was completely covered with black Astroturf. I am not making this up, either. It looked like a very smug rodent with wheels. At the time I thought that this was asinine but now I realize that that Saab was a masterpiece of aerodynamic engineering, for having copious vortices. Probably if somebody had smacked it with a three-wood it would have flown all the way to Kenosha on very little gas. If I'd known then what I know now...
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