>>12705244Only the crew compartment is pressurized, so the main fuselage doesn't go through the same cycles that limit the fatigue life of an aircraft. Also, it isn't riddled with portholes which furter weaken the structure. Also it's a military plane, made to survive direct hits from missiles, so it's most likely overbuilt. All this mean less stress on each single component, and one way to increase fatigue life is to reduce the stress in the first place. Commercial aircrafts are made to be as light as possible while retaining the bare minimum structural integrity because muh fuel efficiency. Also this
>>12705271>>12705248>That's because there's no innovation in aeronautics.Eat a dick asshole, innovation is driven by politics and markets' demand. Politics want a supersonic passenger plane? Here you have Concorde. Market demands the fuckhugest passenger plane to sail the skies for their hub'n'spokes model? Here you have the A380. Then the market says: you know what? People don't really give a shit about any of those things, what they really care about is getting from point A to point B directly in the cheapest way possible, so now everyone's trying to make everything super efficient, which turns out requires a lot of attention to details, which you fucking pleb won't ever notice because you can hardly tell the difference between a Concorde and an A380.
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