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"Their well
formed bodies give evidence of Allah's lasting blessing."
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Salim Bin-Abdullah
Haj
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The Drop-Shape
The aerodynamic drop-shape is in many respects ideal. It
connects little stream-resistance with little forming of whirlwind.
You can read in Walther Opitz's book "Windhunde"
about it: "What has it to do with Sighthounds? Also the
fast animals try to adjust their body to the air-resistance
to be most streamlined. The Sighthounds succeeded the best
in it. So we observe that the depth of the toracic cage does
not only enclose the large lungs and the strong heart but
as an appropriated trunk-form also looks like a perfect drop-shape."
In the following a few comments of Walther Opitz are explained
by photos of Sloughis:
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( ...) how the body - here the shoulder, the brisket
and the base of the chest -in the best dynamic drop-shape
has formed. Likewise you can see the second drop-shape in
the muscular stretched hindquarters at full speed.
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"At fast motion there is no restraining of
the vacuum and no suction by this body-form; the pierced through
air-layer closes well again, too. This drop-shape remains as
well in each phase of motion. |
All quotations from: Walther Opitz "Windhunde", Verlag
Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart, 1979
Pictures 2+3 show Ussamal Nuri al Baida, Photo: Gisela Schwarz
Picture I Ussamal and Tabrik Nuri al Baida, Photo: Dirk Gerschewski
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