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Originally Posted by freebeard
Google sez "Did you mean: Busemann Biplane ". A supersonic biplane?
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I stand corrected.
I was always intrigued by the amount of actual science that I learned from science fiction, although I was never quite certain of all of it, but that was from some novel that I read years ago.
The idea was that you could exceed the speed of sound without creating a sonic boom if you did not have wings and in order to fly, you needed a dirigible, so you basically had two circular airfoils inside of each other, filled with helium.
Sounds complicated!
