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To: datura
#6: "Hard to imagine the strength of the main spar between the two fuselages."

That's a design that might look good on paper or computer simulations, but in real life it cries out "catastrophic failure". Actually, I don't think that design looks good on paper or in real life.

I wouldn't trust it.
 

61 posted on 04/13/2019 10:00:52 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
but in real life it cries out "catastrophic failure".

That's my take too. It seems like some unexpected weather condition could torque the two fuselages out of acceptable alignment. They'd start vibrating out of control until something broke. But I'm not in that line of work - I hope the engineers knew what they were doing.

113 posted on 04/13/2019 7:22:30 PM PDT by Tellurian (Demonicrats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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