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Isn't the really interesting thing that they're proposing fuselage and wing shapes that you can't design without using "modern" (developed after 1965) methods?
by bediger 16y ago
Isn't the really interesting thing that they're proposing fuselage and wing shapes that you can't design without using "modern" (developed after 1965) methods? The cylindrical fuselage standard passenger jet design is something you can design using a slide rule or pocket calculator and a copy of "Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain".
- rbanffy 16y agoI am very happy flying in things that could be designed with a slide-rule. If the computer program that analyzed the fuselage is wrong and I can't spot the error because the result is too complex for a human to have a clue, I'll die anyway, regardless of what the computer said. I like what a test-pilot once told me: We don't need milestones. We need inchstones.