Billowing Roof!
On the way home from our camping trip I noticed 3 different trailers going down the road with their roofs full of air! These were newer rigs too...If there was some way to let them know I would hav...
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ScottG wrote:We've had this discussion before, you can't have lift without air underneath the roof trying to equalize the pressure. If the roof is billowing there is a area somewhere letting air get under the roof.
You don't have to have loose edges - just a loose center area.
As you drive, the air moving over the top of the roof is moving faster than the air under it. The faster moving air has a lower pressure than the air underneath.
The result is "lift" and exactly how an airplance flies.
Of course any way you look at it, it is bad news. Sooner or later something will pull loose in a big way.
