Oh guys, just to set the records straight, absolutely no aerodynamic engineering has gone into this, I'm an artist/designer[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]... not a engineering/designer[sm=cool.gif]
It's draw purely for looks. I'd have to hand it over to somebody that knows the science to answer the questions
She's a looker though.
Some where I had the 3/4 view of the cowl intake... and the pipe tunnel vents... all inspired by 1000 year old Moorish designs.
I was inspired to draw it after reading the discription of the Arabic Dancing girls (belly dancers) by a 18th century English gentleman traveller.
Thus the curves. The key word I held in my head was "Harem".
As I said I'm an artist... not a rational thinking engineer!
I wanted to get a vailed, exotic/erotic look.
Seeing it years later... it looks more beefy... obviously an image of some great hunk of a Eunuch must have crept in there somehow.