As Dominic looked at the design, he realized that the extremely wide oval design would actually be terrible for flight. Making it longer and narrower would be so much better, but as he read the math on the sheet, it became clear that the total volume relied much more on the width than the length.
Narrowing the design even a little would cost them a huge amount of volume, compared to the extra speed they might get from the improved shape.
But cargo ships were also usually fat and ponderous, designed to hold as much as possible, not to move as efficiently as possible through the water.
"Unless we do something about the shape, this thing is going to fly like a Davian Cargo Caravel." Dominic joked, referring to the infamously wide and flat-bottomed cargo ships that travelled the southeastern seas.
"Not much way around that if we're not going to load them up with magic." Gully noted.
