The slender–body solution for the flow about low aspect–ratio wings of non–zero thickness yields a pressure distribution which is valid in the vicinity of the leading edge and therefore suitable for comparison with measured distributions. In this note an expression is derived for the theoretical pressure distribution, due to small incidence, on a slender elliptic half–cone in uniform motion. It is shown that this distribution is additive to the zero incidence pressure distribution. A comparison with some low speed measurements shows qualitative agreement.

The method can be simply extended to other bodies of elliptic cross section.