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Pointy nose cones?


"Chutes" Kalinin

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Cpt. Kipard, pointy nosecones are *exactly* as aerodynamic as round ones in FAR; they're all treated as a conical frustum with the front as radius 0--so long as the front is not literally flat, it will taper to 0; FAR ignores curvature in its taper calculations.

In real life, of course, a bit of curvature *does* help. :)

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