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Spreading the load a wing must lift along the wing is an important way to be able to make a lighter wing, owing to the fact that part of its load is now distrib
by gardenfelder 3y ago
Spreading the load a wing must lift along the wing is an important way to be able to make a lighter wing, owing to the fact that part of its load is now distributed along where the lift is being generated.
- hinkley 3y agoDefinitely. Liquid cargo has a really good property of being able to go around corners and through narrow passages, as long as the rates are reasonable. And they don't tend to jam, so you don't need to store them in human accessible locations. Of course they also slosh, which means you need some tricks to keep the sloshing from causing issues. This conversation does bring to mind the lifting body plane Boeing thought they were going to make. I wonder how they planned to load and unload that sucker? It would have taken multiple bays to do efficiently. And I don't know how you keep the crates from shifting. In a cylindrical craft the bulkheads and the ribs are right there to brace against.