Re: (gear) Zeppelin shape

["Rich Peet" richpeet]

Yes there is a noted difference.
In high winds there is less turbulance around the rounded surface.
Which ever way you design for the most easy way to test your DIY
windscreen is the "beagle test".

That is where you hang yourself and the windscreen out a car window
and have the driver shout out the speeds you are going as you test. 
Pretty easy this way to determine how good you got it.

I use food strainers with the handles cut off to get the rounded ends.
 Not hard to find these in a number of diameters.


Rich

--- In  "1GDW" <> wrote:
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> Is there an advantage to have the ends of a zeppelin rounded?  I want 
> to construct a DIY windscreen and it would be less fabricating to 
> make  the ends flat.  Mic / ME-66.
> Gerald White  Muscatine, IA
>