Aircraft Design
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
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How I Built This
2 statements about Aircraft Design, every show
Scholl: Airplanes are tightly coupled machines, unlike software architecture
“Great software is loosely coupled, like one piece of our code, if we change it, shouldn't affect what another piece of our code does. But great airplanes are very tightly coupled, highly integrated machines.”
Frank Stephenson argues aircraft designers should study marine hydrodynamics over standard aerodynamics
“Fish are much more efficient at creating aerodynamic shapes, or hydrodynamic shapes actually, than planes are. I think we're looking at the wrong direction. We should be looking under the sea as opposed to looking at standard aerodynamic shapes when we want to…”