>>1855720>Was this just a meme to push jets? No one complained so much about earlier pistonsThere was quite a lot about managing the vibrations and resonance, getting everything counterweighted etc. Except for Schneider cup racers, which were handmade prototype designs, piston engine output increased 10 fold, from the few short years of WWII. So when the jets came out all the smart people wanted to work on the better technology, and no gov't would spend that much $$$ paying to figure out the nonsense with the resonance.
Most of those airliners are fucking disgusting elongated people cans btw. Equally ugly then as the aluminum ones are now.