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Originally Posted by aerohead
1) Yep, Hucho's a real slacker. His PhD in mechanical engineering, running a climatic wind tunnel for a decade, spending decades around automotive aerodynamics, and working under some of the folks who literally wrote the books on aerodynamics obviously would have no credibility when recommending a pathway to low drag.
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I've mentioned this before here, but when I emailed Hucho directly last year and asked him what he would recommend to reduce the drag of my car, he said
nothing about any sort of template, tapered tail, half-body of revolution, or extension at all.
Be sure you're differentiating between what Hucho has actually recommended, and what
you recommend as pathways to low drag. He is by far not the only author to treat low-drag idealized shapes--although some others do at much more length--but all of them that I have read consider streamlined half-bodies as shapes which can be, in Hucho's words, "progressively transformed into a car." (He wrote this in a section which does not appear in the 2nd edition).