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To: miliantnutcase
Those wings must really flex...

Especially on a full-load takeoff.

Actually, I'm not that impressed with its configuration. It really doesn't look like a practical design. They gave up way too much cargo volume in the tail.

21 posted on 06/01/2013 8:28:02 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Carry_Okie
Didn't they do that for the Buran?

/johnny

22 posted on 06/01/2013 8:32:47 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Carry_Okie

The tails were intentionally designed that way to accommodate external payloads like the Buran.


46 posted on 06/01/2013 11:07:20 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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