why do all the scaled composites planes look like that - ThreadSky

osakanone.bsky.social•10 days ago

Getting the strangest Luigi Colani vibes from this stuff.

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samrohrbach.space•14 days ago

they got their inspiration from those ultralight gliders and then thought about scaling them up with composites

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fwdrift.bsky.social•14 days ago

Trypophobia plane and borzoi plane

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sclubb.bsky.social•10 days ago

this is so cool i should start drawing these AUUUGTHHHHHHH

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bigskwigg.bsky.social•14 days ago

Childhood malnourishment, they all have rickets.

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kerbalsystems.bsky.social•14 days ago

rutan is weird

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krismur.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the alternate Rutanverse all planes look like that, and he thinks our Earth planes are the strange ones

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cyradiusanglerfish.bsky.social•10 days ago

No idea what the plane is for but my first mental instinct was “They’re decorating the planes with the survivorship bias dots now?!”

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scolopendra.bsky.social•8 days ago

From my knowledge: the narrow wing aspect ratio and fuselage fineness ratios are for aero efficiency. Portholes are structurally efficient.

But I also just asked 'em. They said: the thin booms minimize weight aft. The swoopyness is jsut Rutan's and Bird's aesthetic sensibility.

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scolopendra.bsky.social•14 days ago

Maybe I'll ask 'em tomorrow.

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b1anca.bsky.social•14 days ago

Theyre so wonderful

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cirrina.bsky.social•14 days ago

i love burt rutan both bc hes maintaining the immortal spirit of bizarre airplanes and bc he looks exactly the way a wacky but genius inventor should look

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backyard.arcades.agency•14 days ago

He looks like scientist Noel Fielding

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