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The Vetter Fairing Company was a manufacturer of motorcycle accessories including the Windjammer series of motorcycle fairings. The business was founded by Craig Vetter in 1966, [3] sold in 1978, [4] and went bankrupt in 1983. Bell-Riddell Inc. acquired the assets, and produced fairings for a few years.
The Peel P50 is in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the world's smallest production car. In 1966 Peel stopped producing cars, concentrating again on motorcycle fairings and – under the name West Marine Ltd. – on the construction of fiberglass boats, especially small fishing boats with outboard motors such as the Peel Inshoreman 18. [9]
Semi-trailer aerodynamic devices are devices affixed to semi-trailers, for the purpose of reducing aerodynamic drag caused by air turbulence.The two major types of device in use are trailer skirts (or side skirts), affixed to the underside of trailers, and trailer tails (or boat tails, or rear fairings), affixed to the rear.
Craig Vetter posing with his 1981 streamliner at AMA Motorcycle Museum in Pickerington, OH, in July 2016. Craig Vetter (born July 28, 1942) [1] is an American entrepreneur and motorcycle designer.
Aircraft fairing, a structure in aircraft design used to reduce drag and improve appearance; Bicycle fairing, a type of fairing coverage for bicycles; Motorcycle fairing, a type of fairing applied to motorcycles; Payload fairing, an aerodynamic structure that encapsulates the payload of a rocket-powered launch vehicle
An aerodynamic fairing must be well-shaped, but minimizing the frontal area of the velomobile is also important to reduced drag: a fairing with half the frontal area may approach half the air drag. In turn, aerodynamic velomobiles use a laid-back or recumbent riding position, with the rider's head much lower than on regular bicycles.