Lofting is particularly useful in boat building, when it is used to draw and cut pieces for hulls and keels, which are usually curved, often in three dimensions.
They also could serve as airborne telecommunications platforms, performing functions similar to communications satellites at a fraction of the cost of lofting a satellite into space.
A feature of the water-cooled variant was the liquid-coolant pipeline which followed the wing lower side lofting to improve aerodynamics.
The magazine has construction plans for an egg lofting rocket.
It would have been capable of lofting a payload of up to 34,000 kg.
Generally, boat building books have a detailed description of the lofting process, beyond the scope of this article.
It is capable of lofting a 110 lb (50 kg) payload to a sub-orbital trajectory with an apogee of 140 miles (225 km).
Lofting drop lines is one, but things don't stop there.
