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The Leading Edge (Engineering and Performance)

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Mr. Tamai has combined understandable theory with real-world operational examples of ultra-light land vehicle aerodynamics. Anyone even thinking about working in this field MUST have this book.

As a person who has worked on such vehicles for about a decade, I can say that there is a vast void in ground-vehicle aero literature; and what is available is pretty incomprehensible to a civilian.

As a person who is trying to figure out how all the formulas and charts relate to something I'm actually trying to design and build, I can say that Mr. Tamai references the theory to concrete examples in a way that is unparalleled in this field.

The biggest compliment I can pay to Mr. Tamai is to say that his book is a key tool for the shop. Builders respect his credentials, which include being a top-notch scholar as well as a winning solar-car racer, driver, and builder for many years.

Our team copy is this minute in the hands of an expert composites person who is building a potential world-speed-record racing dirtboat/land-yacht/sand-sailer.

Amazon, I hope you sell a lot of these books! Mr. Tamai deserves to make some actual money from his brilliant work.

Cheers, Richard Rahders, '96 Aussie Team Manager, TNE @ Santa Cruz Solar Racers, "Pumpkinseed" #69, World Solar Challenge '96, Santa Cruz, CA.

This book is very useful for anyone working with solar or human-powered vehicles. It is the only book of its kind for these types of prototype vehicles and is well worth the money. I'm working on a car for a supermileage competition and this book has been a big help.

I am working on building my first aerodynamic vehicle platform.

This book was helpful to me. It helped me learn about various ways people are solving aerodynamic issues with light-weight vehicles. It compared various vehicles and presented related data. It has lots of pictures and graphs. It gives a lot of food for thought for someone new to aerodynamic vehicle design issues.

I'd recommend this to anyone designing or building electric or human powered vehicles.