Quite an airplane(s).
Where do the payload (rockets) go?
One wonders if Paul Allen has long, curly, uncut fingernails, and obsession for banana ice cream, and the desire to watch “Ice Station Zebra” at least 150 times?
For those not getting the references, it is Howard Hughes...inventor/builder of the Spruce Goose, and enormous plane from just post-WW2.
No offense to anyone but it reminds me of those crazy huge airplanes the Germans built in WW2!
I wonder how strong the wing spars are?
The plane is designed to carry up to three Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rockets at a time into the air, and then set them loose to launch payloads into orbit.
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There’s not much demand for Pegasus rockets. I have no idea why they would want to launch three at a time. Perhaps it seemed like a good idea six years ago.
Quit drooling, Howard Hughes.
I don’t understand the duplicate cockpits design unless it is to be flown by consensus rather than a pilot. I don’t understand the single connection at the wings to the twin fuselages. I don’t understand the individual tail structures other than a structure between them would cause a drag, but something should in my mind be there to stabilize the vertical stabilizers, and support the wing connections at the fuselages other than many a wish, and prayer.
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No wonder why he sold one of his yachts.............
It's two, two, two planes in one!
I was crossing the Mojave today and saw it with the hanger door open. I wondered if it was a Burt Rutan followup to Proteus and now I know what I saw.