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Boeing benefitted from Operation Paper Clip and experience building B-47 and B-52 bombers along with the USAF SAC-finances first batch of KC-135 tankers.Podded engines help stabilize wings in pitch, reducing the risk of flutter and allowing for lighter wing structures. Installing heavy engines well forward of the structural center makes entire engine/wing structure self-stabilizing in pitch and flutter … similar to the way that control surfaces (high speed airframes) have such heavy counter-weights that their center-of-gravity is forward of the hinge line.
Boeing benefitted from Operation Paper Clip and experience building B-47 and B-52 bombers along with the USAF SAC-finances first batch of KC-135 tankers.
Podded engines help stabilize wings in pitch, reducing the risk of flutter and allowing for lighter wing structures. Installing heavy engines well forward of the structural center makes entire engine/wing structure self-stabilizing in pitch and flutter … similar to the way that control surfaces (high speed airframes) have such heavy counter-weights that their center-of-gravity is forward of the hinge line.
