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What is This?

08/26/2015 6:31 PM
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08/26/2015 7:30 PM

It's the cross section of the winning skin for the drag reduction contest. The micro-grooves reduce drag when placed along the surface of the aircraft.
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08/26/2015 8:45 PM

Also good for the mechanic to scratch his back on.
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08/27/2015 12:51 PM

Airbus A320 with riblet film on wing

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08/26/2015 9:09 PM

WAG...saw set....old

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08/26/2015 9:33 PM

A file from the side

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Made of your favourite material!

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08/26/2015 11:31 PM

Is this that loose screw everyone says kulas has...?

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08/27/2015 2:49 PM

Ouch!

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Re: What is this?

08/27/2015 2:21 AM

Dear Mr.Fredski,

For me it appears as SUGAR CANE CRUSHING MILL which has a grooved roller and scrapper/trash plate .

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08/27/2015 2:29 AM

What made you morbid thinker these days? Did you killed a man or about to?

Last post was a mushroom now seems a saw teeth.
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08/27/2015 4:10 AM

Kulas, you should be banned.
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08/27/2015 6:16 AM

Kulas already got his band. You don't
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08/27/2015 5:12 AM

Leaving "3m_riblet" in the name of the picture was too big a clue

http://oracleracingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/3m-riblet-technology.html

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08/28/2015 10:10 AM

It's that piece of coping saw blade that I broke that I couldn't find after it went flying. Where'd you find it?
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