[JulianEdgar]

Originally Posted by aerohead

In the Preface of his 2nd-Edition, Hucho admonishes us, advising us to learn everything about road vehicle aerodynamics, plus that from other disciplines, such that we may draw on the entire body of knowledge to draw on for solutions.
You'll be in an information desert unless you've explored biomimicry, airships, blimps, blisters, canopies, fairings, radomes, bullet-valves, nozzles, self-powered rail-cars, submarine exterior hulls, torpedoes, projectiles, belly tanks, drop-tanks, towed electronics arrays, antenna housings, etc..
If you'll continue to learn, you'll eventually arrive at a reality which overturns your present rudimentary understanding.

' It ain't what you know, it's what you think you know that just ain't so.' Mark Twain

Yeah, well it was Dr Hucho himself who suggested I buy the fifth edition - that's the book with just two pages out of 1300 on 'ideal shapes'!