What do we really know about the transonic zone?

[Distant Thunder]

Brian,

I'm sorry, I did not mean to say that your parabolic nose was pointy, I haven't seen it and I don't know. I did say, I have worked with a parabolic shape of some sort, but was as relates to dish antennas. That's the only experience I have with anything "parabolic". I just brought up the rocket nose cone bullet because you mentioned rocketry. The bullet I was talking about was the pointiest bullet design I believe I've ever seen. There are many rocket nose designs, the one I worked with in making a bullet mold was relatively new, updated and improved, but still a rocket nose.

This all show the problem i mentioned in my original post with trying to research transonic bullet designs, you usually end up with rockets or airplanes and not bullets. I have not found much written about the subject of bullet designs for transonic flight and our bullet spend the majority of their 3 second flight in the transonic zone. As was mentioned, it probably doesn't matter, but I find it interesting just the same.

I would be interested in see a picture of your parabolic bullet.