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Old 13th Jul 2018, 07:11
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tdracer
 
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Looks like a structural and certification nightmare. Multiple pressure vessels hooked together, structural load sharing with flight safety critical connections, single points of failure with catastrophic consequence of failure. The weight/efficiency penalties of making something like this remotely safe would be a showstopper.
Something dreamed up by someone with zero real world experience of making something actually work when failure means killing hundreds of people...
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