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I didn’t understand why he traced jetliner designs to the B-47 when the cylindrical fuselage idea has been dominant since before WWI. I think he meant to refer
by iamnotwhoiam 5y ago
I didn’t understand why he traced jetliner designs to the B-47 when the cylindrical fuselage idea has been dominant since before WWI.
I think he meant to refer to the engines under the wings on nacelles, but when someone gets something that obvious mixed up in their script I think of Gell-Mann Amnesia suspect everything else they’ve created.
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- dredmorbius 5y agoExamples might benefit your comment.
- iamnotwhoiam 5y agoExamples of what?
- dredmorbius 5y agoI'm a bit surprised I need to spell this out: examples supporting your argument and assertions.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe video discusses jet aircraft "tube and wing" design. There were no operational jet aircraft prior to WWII, and the first test flights only predated the war itself by four days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178 There were pressurised aircraft prior to WWII, but only just. And the first pressurised civilian commercial aviaation aircraft was also a Boeing design, the propeller-driven 307. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_307_Stratoliner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_307_Stratoliner One might argue that Boeing wasn't entirely the first to commercial jet airliners (the De Havilland Comet preceded it in commercial use by 6 years, though proved remarkably unreliable initially), but it was the first commercially successful jet, truly ushered in the Jet Age, and has served as the fundamental prototype of the vast majority of jet-powered aircraft which followed (Concorde being the principle exception). The 707 was developed directly from Boeing's work in developing high-altitude, long-range bombers during and after WWII.