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The Square-Cube law........

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Applied to Aircraft Size.......

"To provide enought thrust to the superduperjumbo
more than 500,000 pounds—you’d have to equip it
with eight of the massive engines that power the A380—compared to the four on the Airbus. (Hanging eight engines has been done before—on Boeing’s B-52, for example.)"

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