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A small, highly aerodynamic aircraft can beat an airliner on fuel per passenger mile, because drag reduction gets harder as the fuselage grows.

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aviation Flying and the machines that do it: propulsion, airlines, runways, and what happened to Boeing.

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  1. Austin Vernon by Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts…
    Surprisingly, fuel consumption per passenger mile would be lower in a Celera 500 than in a 737. The larger the fuselage, the harder it is to achieve the same drag reduction.

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