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Fixed wing Wildcat (F4F-3 I think) compared to folding wing (F4F-4 or similar). You can kind of "tetris" two fixed wing aircraft together, but you can see how it let you fit two or three times as many planes aboard.
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Fixed wing Wildcat (F4F-3 I think) compared to folding wing (F4F-4 or similar). You can kind of "tetris" two fixed wing aircraft together, but you can see how it let you fit two or three times as many planes aboard.
They've done that since the freaking V2:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This was figured out for rockets for 80 years now, and it works fine for everything from Saturn V to N1 to Shuttle to SLS. But SpaceX wanted to be different, and it turns out it was dumb. Who knew!
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This was figured out for rockets for 80 years now, and it works fine for everything from Saturn V to N1 to Shuttle to SLS. But SpaceX wanted to be different, and it turns out it was dumb. Who knew!
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They've done that since the freaking V2:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This was figured out for rockets for 80 years now, and it works fine for everything from Saturn V to N1 to Shuttle to SLS. But SpaceX wanted to be different, and it turns out it was dumb. Who knew!
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
This was figured out for rockets for 80 years now, and it works fine for everything from Saturn V to N1 to Shuttle to SLS. But SpaceX wanted to be different, and it turns out it was dumb. Who knew!