Talk:Twin boom
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The definition given in this encyclopaedia is logical, standing as a wise possible basis BUT it should be known that many discrepant definitions have been published to define the wording “twin-boom”, and its French equivalent in a single word (not compound: “bipoutre”). The AirBritainUK specialist about twin-boom aircraft, amateurish writer/artist, has gathered/compared eleven “twin-boom” definitions in a published book, with three more in a free inline-book, and two more (including the Wikipedia one) in a Web forum.*
About justifications, several rare ones complete the main ones: - (fast planes) hiding the dragging fuselage behind one of the lateral engines - (big spans) supporting at mid span a giant wing or giant tailplane - (twin-hull) lateral hulls avoiding the use of extra floats apart of a main hull - (twin fuselage) many doors to load/unload quickly - (mother plane) free center for the fin of a plane below - (4-rotor helicopter) square support to the main devices etc.
Final: this is A good definition but it seems impossible to give THE definition, every sentence to define “twin-boom” begins by the implicit word “Usually…”
- from X.Toff/Tophe: “Catamarans du Ciel” (sold out book, scheduled to be an E-book in 2007), “Forked Ghosts” (E-book), “Supplement Nr1 to Forked Ghosts” (published book), “The end of Forked Ghosts” (E-book), “article-about-twin-boom-aircraft” (topic in a Web forum).
Update 2007: a (French) Web-site has been dedicated to the definition of twin-boom, the title being definitions-du-mot-"bipoutre" (a half million versions have been counted...)
