Re: WhiteKnightTwo Soars Over Mojave
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:39:50 -0600
Damon Hill wrote:
The wing/spar that joins the two fuselages must be pretty damn stiff
and strong--I'd hope so, anyway. Obviously it flies, but it looks like
it wants to break. How many other aircraft have been built like this?
Not any except for a unbuilt German WW II design that I always thought may have inspired Rutan's approach to carrying his rocketplane: http://www.luft46.com/db/dbbombb.html
Rather than being stiff, I assume its very flexible and made of carbon graphite composites like most of the later Rutan designs.
He knows how to do that design concept to a "T".
He's a little crazy, but he's also a innate aerodynamic genius of the caliber of Kelly Johnson, R.J. Mitchell, and Andrei Tupolev.
Pat
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