Am 22.02.2015 um 20:34 schrieb Alain:

> The most realistic space fighter I ever saw was the Fury from Babylon 5.
> NO wings. No profiling. Just bone dry design with a canopy designed only
> to provide the largest view field as possible.

Well, the struts for the Fury's engines sort of /look/ like wings, with 
their somewhat horizontal arrangement.

For a space fighter, I guess it would be more reasonable to arrange the 
engines in an orthogonal X shape: Both for safety (if one engine fails 
catastrophically, you want a maximum distance to the nearest other 
engine(s)) and for the sake of being able to effect attitude corrections 
by means of variable engine thrust (with an orthogonal arrangement, both 
pitch and yaw can be affected equally well, while the "flat" X shape 
strongly favors yaw).

Possibly the best compromise between reasonable arrangement and viewer 
expectations would be a 3-engine design with an upside-down Y configuration.

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