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Old 11-10-2015, 06:45 PM   #204 (permalink)
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The low stagnation point,sweptback nose,called 'Stromform' by a bus company in Germany which used it,repeatedly shows the lowest drag and is the easiest to control front lift with.
It's a 'blunt instrument',but for subsonic flow,it has advantages over many other designs.

Hucho has illustrated it's benefits
Here,R.G.S.White shows it as the lowest drag nose in his MIRA research of 1968

Here's HONDA's solar racer using it.Cd 0.10

It dates to 1922,with Paul Jaray's Zeppelin-inspired 'pumpkin seed.'

It's been considered 'ideal' ever since.
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