I want some of whatever these guys were drinking when they dreamed this up. I swear that history will show that the first sketches of the design were made on a bar napkin.
That’s just my wild-assed guess.
Oldplayer
I suspect Kelly Johnson had more that a few of those as well, and so what? Engineers think differently, and creative juices flow at unexpected times.
As I told my boss once, my breakthrough on a design came in the morning shower as I was soaping my ***s. It became a running joke in the engineering department how to break through a sticking point.