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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I'm investigating various hull shapes and nacelle locations. During times of technologic change, such as the introduction of armor plating or jet engines, the first designs usually apply the new technologies to old forms, so we get things like HMS Warrior, a broadside-firing screw steamer built of iron and the Gloster Meteor, a straight-winged jet fighter. However, after this initial stage, you get a period of experimention in which every conceivable variation is tried until a new standard is established by superiority or by convention. This same sort of experimentation process would occur when matter/antimatter reactors and high-powered nacelles are introduced. Any way, this middle design is not really part of any developmental sequence, but is part of a chronological sequence. Putting a nacelle beneath the hull is a reasonable alternative to have it mounted in the rear and perhaps is closer to the high-nacelle configurations seen later, just inverted. The hull form is basically cylindrical and has a longer deflector housing at the nose. Not so radical really. Edited: To return Warrior to the RN [/QB][/QUOTE]
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