From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 12:57:54 MDT
Robert Bradbury commented about the B-47 as the origin of modern airliner
design and I found the original citation.
"The current standard airliner configuration, now more than 50 years
old, comes from the B-47 bomber that Boeing built for the U.S. Air Force
early in the Cold War."
They were commenting that the existing designs imitate the B-47 not
that the batwing design does.
The B-47 was a long fuselage with swept back wings just as you see in
almost every airliner at any modern airport.
Ron h.
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