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It has to look like a pencil in a top view - and in real life it would.
Handley Page HP.0/400 which is roughly a real-life contemporary of Your design had a fuselage wide for just about 1,5 metre (or 5 feet - meaning 10 pixels in SB scale) in the widest place - and all of it with two pilots sitting side-by side.

It is based more on the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI which was a lot larger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin-S ... .VI.2C_.29

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Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI - wingspan 42,2m, length 22,10m.
Handley-Page HP.0/400 - wingspan 30,48m, length 19,16m.
Kriegskraft VK-3 Valkyrie - wingspan 29,11m, length 20,27m.

Lot larger?... R.VI had larger wingspan but it's length wasn't much different and proportions of fuselage wasn't much different either.
And width of it's fuselage was below 2m either - slightly larger than HP.0/400, but that would be still 12-13 pixels maximum - but Yours VK-3 has (or rather should have) proportions of 0/400 not Zeppelin.

The Vickers-Kriegskraft VK-3 Valkyrie will not be a flying pencil, due to it having a rather heavy bomb capacity (for it's size and vintage although it would sill be built today due to it's cost) and other capabilities like there will be a flying boat version as well.

so she will be flying like an brick?
air resistance, ever heard of it?

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That's just another reason why you don't want a thick tail structure. It'll take up weight that you could otherwise use for bombs.
You're going to run out of lift long before you run out of space, even in a pencil shaped hull.

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Fine she has now a width of 7.5 feet and a wingspan on 101.5 feet.

I have also made the cockpit more aerodynamic and have changed the roundels.

Still not perfect, but better. Btw. - increase the area of the horizontal tail.

Done.

I wonder how hard a carrier conversion would be?