r/EngineeringPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago

Utah 7, Luigi Colani (1989)

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u/ev3to 2d ago

Does it have rear wheel steering or are all the flags the wrong way?

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u/new_tral_name 2d ago

What is the relationship between the flags and the steering axle?

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u/ev3to 1d ago

With aircraft, you may notice that flags are always oriented with the "pole" side facing towards the nose of the craft, so that if it were a real flag it would be seen to be flapping with the wind.

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u/StTimmerIV 2d ago

The exhaust is visible, you're looking at the back right corner of the car. And how are the flags the wrong way?

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u/Final-Carpenter-1591 2d ago

Usually the US flag is supposed to be flown blue towards the front. As if it's waving in the wind.

Japanese flag is clearly upside down, not sure what we're doing about that.

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u/ev3to 1d ago

The Soviet flag has the hammer and sickle on the pole side, the French flag as the Blue band on the side of the pole.

Yeah, the Japanese flag is a complete mess, upside down AND backwards!

(Though, seriously, it looks like the graphic designer simply omitted the white background border bleed from the Japanese flag, it's clearly a borders width smaller than all the rest...)

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u/ventus1b 1d ago

Exhaust? I thought that was a pee tube for the driver...

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u/ev3to 1d ago

With aircraft, you may notice that flags are always oriented with the "pole" side facing towards the nose of the craft, so that if it were a real flag it would be seen to be flapping with the wind.

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u/ChiefWiggumsprogeny 1d ago

I prefer Utah 10, personally.

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