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Originally Posted by aerohead
* Your book is written for the car enthusiast and non-engineer.
* Those of us here, with an engineering background, will find certain aspects of your investigations and conclusions falling outside the bounds of scientific rigor.
* Three times already, I've attempted to direct you towards science which would provide a much deeper insight into your experiences and interpretations. And it looks like three times it was all for naught. None of your subsequent posting reveal any hint that you spent even a pico-second with the material. Had you processed it, it would be impossible for you to cling to your folk knowledge.
* I'm in doubt that your international panel of experts actually signed off on as much of your book as you claim. I'd very much like to see what your exchanges actually were, and did some things get lost in translation between an engineer-aeronautical engineer- aerodynamicist, and a sociologist-geographer.
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And journalist - you forgot about that.
We don't need to see all the correspondence from the reviewers - just look at the endorsements. You can be absolutely sure these experts wouldn't have endorsed the book without agreeing with its content!
"The best practical introduction to aerodynamics for the car enthusiast that I've seen. The author combines his own experience with published research to provide useful and reliable insights into the often bewildering world of automotive aerodynamics." Adrian Gaylard, head of aerodynamics, Jaguar Land Rover
"A really good book that should be added to the library of everyone working in automotive aerodynamics, as well as those making car aero modifications at home." - Rob Palin, former Tesla aerodynamicist
"This book covers a wealth of useful car aerodynamic information for the non-engineer." Professor Joseph Katz, author Race Car Aerodynamics
"Your book is unique! It was high time that someone covered vehicle aerodynamics through the practical eyes of someone like you." - Dr Wolf-Heinrich Hucho, the founder of modern vehicle aerodynamics
Unfortunately, from your perspective, a great deal of what you say here is either completely wrong, partly wrong or misleading. People have been sucked into it (or maybe just overwhelmed with the 'wall of noise' approach you take to debates) and so lots of misapprehensions have developed here around car aero. The Template is the most obvious of those misapprehensions.