Of course, a vertically little bit curved airplane is better than a totally straight one (e.g. the Jumbo Shuttle Concept of Boeing)... You don't even expect anything else from making a superstrong shell structure out of the fuselage of a 747 by cutting off its "crown space" for an elegant and unique glass cupola than improving the qualities of the Jumbo Jet... As a shell structure in terms of a U the fuselage becomes as strong as to be able to follow the curvature of Earth - definitely a certain kind of additional intelligence, too... A weaker (conventional) fuselage is rigid and fragile while a superstrong fuselage is flexible and spreads majesticly over the curved Earth (just like really very large building complexes)...
A vertically little bit curved fuselage also results in better flight characteristics, as well... The bow of the aircraft is not faster any more than its aft but the entire airplane flies at the same angle speed around the Earth... Less inner tension in the fuselage means a stronger structure again that can hold the glass cupola of the SkyDive Deck and the passengers there easily...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
No comments:
Post a Comment