The maximum takeoff weight includes the full fuel load and bombload. I think some additional work is still necessary.
I had incorrectly listed the figure of 250,000lb as max TO weight when it should have been the loaded weight. I have now corrected this. This put its much more within the B-36 ballpark.
The bombload has been dialled all the way back to 40,000lb so that should help cut weight too.
The only historical data I could dig up was here:
https://www.aircrash.org/burnelli/lift18.htm
This is the information I have now used to refine the design from the initial version I had developed on part-sources of information. Burnelli's estimates were optimistic but I have not sought to advance his estimates, in fact rather the opposite.
And the size of the Aigaion (wingspan particularly) will definitely limit its basing options.
True, but the BCAC Westminster has a span of 210 ft so its not completely beyond the realms of possibility and if the RAAF is going to use purpose-built bases then its less of an issue. I don't see these being forward deployed in New Guinea for example, though it is possible they may visit RAF bomber airfields in Malaya from time to time.
Wouldn't it be better for Australia to invest in some easier-to-use Windsors, possibly a made-for-Aus long range model?
That is one option, either that or a Lancaster development with RR Griffons as a WW Lincoln/Shackleton hybrid.
I know Shin has been super keen on these super-science projects and wanted to get more sharing between Commonwealth nations. I think the design has some promise but it is a problematic one, being so far outside the realms of normal designs to compare against.