Agree about aerodynamics but as you said fairings could solve that.
Here is a drone concept with a single conex container.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...ticle31551618/
Again for me this is more of a Morrow thing than a t2k thing, but still interesting.
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a vtol plane version
https://www.popsci.com/canadian-desi...ing-containers