[mattygee]

You gotta tell me, what did it feel like? :)

It kinda looks, to my eyes at least, like it has a matte finish in photos, so my thinking would be that it would have perhaps an almost shark skin roughness or something? Though you'd imagine surely not given the bit of extra drag when factored over the whole airframe...maybe?

But then again, at those speeds I wonder if there would be a difference or if boundary layer effects take over or something of that nature.

Disclaimer: am obviously not an aerospace engineer :)

[vr46]

It was some years ago but I think you're spot on, it was exactly like that!