Bullets in flight are subject to nature’s forces. Through the decades, manufacturers have developed bullets to somewhat counteract the effects of wind, gravity and atmospheric drag with a streamlined ...
The Long Game is a new series designed to improve your long-range-shooting skills. This story is the first installment. A basic understanding of external ballistics is something all shooters of every ...
Aptera’s “Gamma” prototype of its solar-powered, three-wheeled electric car is overseas right now, doing aerodynamic testing at Pininfarina’s wind tunnel near Turin, Italy, in the shadow of the ...
To me, “you don’t know what you don’t know,” is one of the more irritating catchphrases in the English language. It’s cliché masquerading as wisdom and the people who use it tend to be self-help gurus ...
Arthur C. Clark once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and that certainly seems to be the case with the black magic studied by aerodynamicists. That means ...