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** It's probably worth remembering that the Imperials, Eldar and Tau have anti-gravity technology, and the last two make extensive use of it. It's probably safe to say that this technology negates the need for aerodynamic structures somehow.
*** Eldar and Tau are not so big offenders. And while the Imperials use anti-gravity technology the fluff for the last three editions clearly states that it's used only} on the Land Speeder. Besides no amount of anti-gravity will prevent air-resistance, and the problem with Imperial aircraft is that they are not streamlined enough to reach their Mach 2+ maximum velocities given in fluff.
**** Obviously, Imperium in any edition widely used antigravity — in servoskull and cherub drones, grav-plating on space vessels and whatnot. Land Speeder is the only Imperial ''vehicle'' explicitly using it as ''primary'' system — it gives all the lifting force at cruising speed rather than only allows limited takeoff/landing hover mode or assists actual wings.
*** Valkyrie can hover, but doesn't look like it either has takeoff engines for VTOL (like the nose thrusters on Thunderhawk) nor like its big engines could bend vector thrust this much (like a convertoplane). Antigravity? But if you look into details, there are also questions like "why the multilaser would be limited to powerpack, if there's clearly enough of power on board to recharge?" and so on.
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