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Re: Do spoilers work?
[Re: jcc]
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10/29/08 01:44 PM
10/29/08 01:44 PM
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Kirkland, Washington
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as posted, spoilers are no more than airplane wings. except they are upside down to produce downforce instead of upforce (lift)
Sorry in our applications, a spoiler is NOT a wing. They may both develope downforce, but they achieve that completely differently. And in laymans terms, a rear spoiler causes a build up of air pressure on a surface upwind of the spoiler mainly by inducing drag, and a rear wing causes a pressure differential on the wing surface by causing different air speeds above and below the wing. They both will induce increased downforce or uplift as desired, but they are not the same. 
 Spoilers and wings are two very different animals. Spoilers are relatively simple 'wind deflectors', a Wing, since it has air flowing over and under (and a shape, perhaps a true aifloil, like a Go-Wing) is a much more complex device.
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