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Originally Posted by freebeard
Well, I guess the implausibility of swallowing a shipping container falsifies the notion of an articulated spine and flexible membranes...(snip)
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The morality of the story lies in fact, that if the author of this design study did not see the obvious problem with excessive width of this creation, he probably was uniformly oblivious to other, finer mechanical aspects.
Imho it should be hard shell. Any type of fabric would need to be stretched to prevent excessive fluttering and fluttering induced drag.