Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
I mean imagine a pyramid falling upside down at terminal velocity. Well, there's actually a rather large amount of surface area in the direction of travel, more so than if it were falling the right way up with a flat square breaking the fall. Yet upside down it will fall faster, not slower.
Would it? That's not clear to me.

Whatever aerodynamics you gain on the front, you lose on the back... I think.

Fluid dynamics is ridiculously complicated when you do away with the assumptions and start to look at real-world scenarios.