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Old 12-11-2020, 01:21 PM   #21 (permalink)
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6) a 'notchback' GOODYEAR blimp would be challenging.
7) a 'squareback' GOODYEAR blimp would be challenging.
8) a 'raked-back' GOODYEAR blimp would be a challenge.
9) GOODYEAR blimps are not a challenge, as their engineering quanta have been known and cataloged since the 1920s.
Today we have a new example, the Celera 500


http://www.aero-news.net/images/cont...500L-0820d.jpg

Why do you think the body has max cross section at 50% instead of 30%? Maybe the pusher prop?

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