Comments on: How Bullets Fly — Mysteries Revealed by German Ballistician https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2019/09/how-do-bullets-fly-mysteries-revealed-by-german-ballistician/ from AccurateShooter.com Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: David Joe https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2019/09/how-do-bullets-fly-mysteries-revealed-by-german-ballistician/comment-page-1/#comment-54507 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:10:26 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=58045#comment-54507 That picture of laminar flow, with its parallel lines emanating from all parts of the bullet forward of the tail, sure does call into question whether a very tiny point at the tip of the bullet makes much difference or not.

It takes little imagination to infer that the bullet as a whole forces flow into the exact same angle no matter what the tip’s angle is, I suppose with speed being the determining factor. And it shows why a 737 need not bother with having a very pointed nose.

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