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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Great! I read your quoted Wiki and it says...
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I've been saying that for this whole thread. The reason for roundness is resistance to non parallel airflow.
That would be why the Jumbo jet doesn't end in a needlepoint, yet the overall profile is rounded like a parabola, not a dome... Because like hypermiler01 is saying, the angle of the surface affects drag.