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The original jet parasite-fighter just looked too “busy” with a cramped cockpit jammed on top of a jet engine and a confusing array of Y-ish tail surfaces jumbled at the back.What if McDonnell-Douglas had abandoned the concept of a separate horizontal tail and just built the XF-85 Goblin with a delta wing?This question was inspired by small boat designer Phil Bolger’s advice to never build a trimaran shorter than 30 feet and never build a catamaran shorter than 20 feet. I forget Bolger’s exact numbers, but his comments were written around the concept of boats big enough to include a cabin large enough to eat and sleep in over-night. A catamaran hull shorter than 20 feet is simply too narrow to include a cabin large enough to eat and sleep in.Most of Bolger’s boats were designed to be built by amateurs in their basements. To ease that objective, Bolger’s friend Dynamite Payson published a series of books about “Instant Boats” made of stitched-and-glued plywood.
The original jet parasite-fighter just looked too “busy” with a cramped cockpit jammed on top of a jet engine and a confusing array of Y-ish tail surfaces jumbled at the back.
What if McDonnell-Douglas had abandoned the concept of a separate horizontal tail and just built the XF-85 Goblin with a delta wing?
This question was inspired by small boat designer Phil Bolger’s advice to never build a trimaran shorter than 30 feet and never build a catamaran shorter than 20 feet. I forget Bolger’s exact numbers, but his comments were written around the concept of boats big enough to include a cabin large enough to eat and sleep in over-night. A catamaran hull shorter than 20 feet is simply too narrow to include a cabin large enough to eat and sleep in.
Most of Bolger’s boats were designed to be built by amateurs in their basements. To ease that objective, Bolger’s friend Dynamite Payson published a series of books about “Instant Boats” made of stitched-and-glued plywood.
