From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 16:17:39 MDT
And the '47 was originally designed with straight wings (tapered ones) but was
hurriedly redesigned after the Allies discovered that *every* new plane being
built or designed by the Germans had had swept wings. "What the...?" "Uh
oh..." *scribble scribble*.
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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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