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WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: mike837go on 24 Jan 2012, 04:59 ---Where does the pilot see out from?
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Concorde had the pilot's window covered by a panel in flight; maybe there is such a panel, but not currently in take-off position (though admittedly the seam isn't showing).

jwhouk:
BRICK JOKE INCOMMMINNGGGGGG!!!!!!

tjradcliffe:

--- Quote from: Akima on 24 Jan 2012, 02:16 ---Many proposed "lifting body" designs have had sharply up-swept wings

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They've got tiny little winglets, not GIGANTIC up-swept wings.  I thought the same thing as others here, and while it's a nitpick to kick at an artist's impression of a '50's-style lifting body, that thing looks positively cartoonish!  Which, uh, I guess kinda makes sense in a comic...

jwhouk:

--- Quote from: mike837go on 24 Jan 2012, 04:59 ---Panel 1 made me very nervous!

Where does the pilot see out from?

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...What pilot? This is a drone. ;)

AnAverageWriter:

--- Quote from: tjradcliffe on 24 Jan 2012, 06:24 ---They've got tiny little winglets, not GIGANTIC up-swept wings.  I thought the same thing as others here, and while it's a nitpick to kick at an artist's impression of a '50's-style lifting body, that thing looks positively cartoonish!  Which, uh, I guess kinda makes sense in a comic...


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Maybe the wings themselves move, and we don't see the joints because the wing is covered in a flexible proprietary polymer designed to wick away heat and space radiation?

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