Ok, I'm trying to wrap my artist head around this.
If I am reading this correctly:
-A wing or pumpkin seed shape is more efficient at low speeds than a conventional teardrop
-It is advantageous to add flow trips at the nose to reduce wake size even though the wake is now turbulent
-"supercritical" in this context means that the wake is smaller than it would be on a "normal" (figure A) shape
-There is no merit to the backward-cone theory
Is that all correct?
PS-
Corollary: does this indicate that Paul Jaray meant for
his Ley T6 "pumpkin seed" to go very low speeds?