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Beermat
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I don’t know about the former, but yes, the latter is absolutely right – the way the curve is drawn, adding camber ‘distorts’ the symmetry and brings the ‘actual’ leading edge forward. The plotting reference line was kept as the chord, even though it looks wrong.

Nothing on the Whirlwind is as it seems.