12-15-2017, 09:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by BEC
True....but "you canna change the laws of physics".....and when the requirements are similar and what you have to work with is similar the you get basically the same answer.
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"For similar problems, aerodynamics gives similar answers, whether for communists or for capitalists." (One of the designers of the U.S.S.R.'s Buran Space Shuttle said that, when the idea of their vehicle being a copy of the U.S. Shuttle was brought up.) For hydrocarbon-burning jets, the 737/A300 configuration is the most efficient--with current materials and methods. In the future, electric ducted fans and the flexible composite skin "bird-like" flaps (among other full-scale new aircraft technologies that are now being tested) may enable greater diversity of configurations, perhaps including totally novel ones. |