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nelloh62

posted on Jun, 16 2015 @ 08:53 AM
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What shape would you have it ? Long and sleek, with boom reducing fuselage. Short swept back wings at the rear ? Or do you reckon wide thin wings is still the way to go


Zaphod58

posted on Jun, 16 2015 @ 09:16 AM
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Same planform, to do the same mission, just it would be able to go into more contested airspace safer.


Zaphod58

posted on Jun, 16 2015 @ 09:17 AM
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a reply to: Barnalby

The 80s rebuild was hugely ambitious, and wanted to build brand new aircraft completely out of composites, at a time when composites were hugely expensive.



 
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