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Originally Posted by freebeard
That's good as far as it goes. Remember you're dealing with a 3D shape. Here's what happens when you put a teardrop over a Beetle (the only examples I have  ):
Two blisters added to the teardop would cover the roof areas, but look what happens below the doors.
This is what I have on Mair. I think it's ambiguous. Is l the distance to the change from curved to straight or to the truncation?
In any case whereas the teardrop has a constantly changing tangent, Mair was making torpedoes with a henispherical nose cap, and arbitrary body length (it could be a train), and a tail end that goes conical when it reaches 22°.
Good luck with the tests. |
In Mair's diagram,the vertical hashed line is the beginning of the curvilinear portion,so the value of length is denoting the distance to the truncation from that point,as from the max camber point with the template.