The very adaptable ‘double-lobe’ transport

TECHNICAL DETAILS BOEING C-97 The distinctive shape of the C-97 resulted from what Boeing describes as “a double-lobe fuselage consisting of two intersecting circular sections”. The design of the lower part of the fuselage was the same as that of the B-29, onto which the wider upper fuselage section was built. The wings and the fin and rudder initially followed the basic Superfortress pattern too, but — as described in the previous section — were changed after the XC-97 prototypes