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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy View Post
Considering they are going to hang and launch a space ship from the center wing, I would think there's probably all sorts of aerodynamic effects that could impact a central horizontal tail. Keeping them outboard is out of the wake of their payload.
It's just a straight rocket innit.. In fact it actually looks a lot like a P38 with the rocket in position

2 nacelles
and a pod in the middle





So given the size of that thing.
Any turbulence that hits the left wing, will put load on the left nacelle..
But the right wing and nacelle might be doing something else.

To me it just seems logical to connect the nacelles in the back, to avoid to much twisting forces in the main front wing.
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