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To: C210N
Good thing he didn’t stick his hand out the window... Factoring in Bernoulli’s, he’d be airborne.

At 208 with a stock body he'd be airborne anyway. There's a good reason for those Formula 1 aerodynamic body shapes - it's called keeping you from flying.

42 posted on 11/16/2016 9:33:43 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
One of the reasons Nascar has slowed down.
50 posted on 11/16/2016 9:41:26 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Talisker
At 208 with a stock body he'd be airborne anyway. <<< BINGO!

My 68 Vette 427 hi-ratio rear end would become airborne at around 145.......plenty of tach left but no steering!!!!...I only did that once!!!! and i still have the ticket to prove it.....(ahhh..the good ol’ days!)

55 posted on 11/16/2016 9:45:40 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: Talisker
"At 208 with a stock body he'd be airborne anyway."

At even half that speed you twitch wrong or hit a significant dip in the road and it's airborne city, a ride that usually ends when you come into contact with a tree or other solid surface. When I was young I worked as an insurance adjuster and had to visit my share of fatal auto accident scenes. I saw that scenario many a time. The Datsun 280-Z was famous for this and I visited at least a half dozen airborne Datsun fatal accident scenes over the space of two years. Corvettes too. Most all of them were hitting a dip in the road or going over the high side of a curve at speeds in excess of 100 mph. Very bad scene.

79 posted on 11/16/2016 10:06:42 AM PST by circlecity
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I go across the Kilpatrick about four times a year or more. There is a section on the west side where it does a lot of whoopty-doos spaced about 40 feet apart. It is west of the lake. I would say hitting that at even 120 would get you airborne


89 posted on 11/16/2016 10:14:39 AM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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