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Old 07-07-2014, 05:45 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Optimum nose

Here is a link to an image of early use of the low stagnation point 'optimum' nose,by Geoffrey de Havilland's Airco D.H.2,of 1915.
http://houseofqueeg.files.wordpress....h2-04-1200.jpg
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