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Originally Posted by aerohead
it's still best to fully boat-tail it.
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The point I was trying to make: The X-1 shield doesn't fit the template anywhere along it's side view. Yet is still the most aero shape that was studied there. Because every slice of the top view is close to an ideal airfloil. Air doesn't have to pass up and over it as much as it can just go to the side. It isn't necessary for narrow shapes to fit the template in all 3 dimesions. As long as the narrowest dimension is perfect. Especially if the angle of attack in the pitch direction is always stable. As it is with our two wheeled streamliners