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Re:MIT proposes to Reinvent the 737 for 70% greater fuel eff... by bediger on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @10:49PM (#1766676)
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".
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Re:MIT proposes to Reinvent the 737 for 70% greater fuel eff... by rbanffy on Thursday October 07, 2010 @08:17AM (#1767566)
I 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.

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