Why can’t we just make the whole plane out of black box material?
In: Engineering
With airplanes, it’s almost always about weight. Building the plane right and putting in the air is simple enough (given proper engineering and piloting). *Keeping* it there as efficiently as possible is the bugaboo. Ultimately, it’s the cost of fuel (which you need more of for more weight) — not to mention the added effort for the pilot keeping a behemoth (weight-wise, in this case) in the sky.
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