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Old 12-04-2023, 04:06 PM   #4187 (permalink)
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Cone-fronted cylinders were racy stuff in Edwardian times. I think that the wedge came back to emulate supersonic aircraft, which are faster without the blunt front edges cars need to establish stagnation points and generate the initial boundary layer.
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