Me compared to the boeing 787 engine. It is huge and I am 5'4.

uh-oh, Ethanstrike on take-off

@DanHulme I hope not.

@Ethan ^^^ is a logical fallacy. Someone presents an argument with reasoning that there is no benefit to your tail design, and you challenge that with something that doesnt actually dispute his claim. Secondly, paper airplanes operate in wildly different regimes from full-scale airplanes (different Reynolds numbers, different structures, different mass, etc) and you can't directly compare your design that way.

I only point this out because I see that you make these kind of arguments routinely (and that isn't uncommon for someone your age) but you could improve your questions and probably the community perception of them, if you could avoid making these kinds of logical fallacies in your arguments

@Ethan Related: Your Logical Fallacy Is... -- Any time you want to debate a subject consider whether your argument falls into one of those categories. If it does it's a weak argument & should be revised or abandoned :)

@Ethan Completely unrelated to anything, but I find it funny that we both have the same name, and that we're the same age. ;-)

@voretaq7 cool link :)

and if you ever want to see logical fallacies in constant use, just watch any politician try to make an argument

@casey Yeah, I've been watching Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc debate a number of ... interesting ... people over the last few days. It's sometimes astonishing how people don't see that they're running around in a circle.

Or how short of a memory they have

look back at a standpoint of a politician 2 month later and he'll have changed his view point around completely like it was never anything else to begin with

I emailed Flightaware today about getting their data, but I was confused by the answer. Their salesperson said their standard product does this, but then pointed me to a page all about live data.

@DanHulme email back and emphasize the historical data.

@ratchetfreak yes, that is my plan for the morning

@voretaq7 I would purchase one if the shipping wasn't as much as the poster itself :P

@falstro You can download and ask a local print shop to print it

Oh great more competition against my airplane design. I knew the tail design existed somewhere Yessssss. This guy also states that his design has extreme amounts of lift, but he forgot to say two things about this huge of wings. 1. These wings would be extremely heavy 2. Extreme amounts of drag from this wingspan. I already have competition I don't need any more :(.

My design looks so pathetic when it comes to this design I have to come up with something different. By the way this plane is called the Lockheed Stratoliner.

Jokes on him my plane can hover Boom!!!!!!!!!