Originally Posted by
Asturias56
SNIP
I seem to remember Bill Gunston discussed the advantages that Boeing discovered when they designed the B-47 - in addition to the points mentioned by tdracer they found less drag, much safer in case of an engine blowing up, much easier to upgrade to bigger engines later (also see the 737)
I seem to remember long ago that there was also a rather subtle point about damping oscillations (or something in that kind of area of structural stability--I am manifestly out of my technical depth) that was the result of the engines being hung largely forward of the leading age.
Is this a false memory, or was there something like this that was a further, unexpected, benefit of podding?