the F-15 being an almost exact copy of the Fighter plane Mr. Burnelli offered to the Pentagon in 1948!
Plenty of idiotic statements like this on the Burnelli web site.
There is a principle reason that passenger airplanes look the way they do. The pressure vessel that they enclose the people within so that they might breathe. Easy to do with a tube, not so easy in a box. Huge difference in weight.