Pitching wedges
HE OLD MAXIM that if it looks right, it is right, doesn’t always apply to aerodynamics. Common sense would seem to dictate that a wedge offers a more slippery presentation to the air than a teardrop shape, but we know better now, and curves work better than corners. In the 1960s and ’70s, the leading Italian design houses of Pininfarina, Bertone and
