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At these speeds is equivalent to taking the S.S. Queen Mary over Nigara Falls so successfully as only to provoke passengers saying, ‘It is a little bumpy today.’
The captains of Boeing 747s land their craft weight 150 tons at 150 mph. often in a foggy night, and do so with such competence that, with the music going, people think no more of it than steering an automobile to the curb. That is scientific architecture which has been evolved from millions upon millions of scientific measurings and on billions of flying hours’ experience. The silver ship going through the sky is a thing of great beauty, but in no way was its structural design arrived at by arbitrary shape preferences. The shaping came out of the wind tunneles. The shaping of the wings came out of the Bernoulli principle of atmospheric pressure differentials. The aesthetic of scientific architecture derives entirely from both comprehensive and incisive integrity and from faithful adherence to science and technology’s discovery of physical laws.
