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The analysis of the governing physics is expensive, in particular for highly flexible aircraft, and the search for optima using analysis samples can scale poorly with design space size. This paper has a two-fold purpose targeting the scalable reduction of analysis sampling. First, a new algorithm is explored for computing design derivatives by analytically linking objective definition, geometry differentiation, mesh construction, and analysis. The analytic computation of design derivatives enables the accurate use of more efficient gradient-based optimization methods. Second, the scalability of a multi-fidelity algorithm is assessed for optimization in high dimensions. This method leverages a multi-fidelity model during the optimization line search for further reduction of sampling costs. The multi-fidelity optimization is demonstrated for cases of aerodynamic and aeroelastic design considering both shape and structural sizing separately and in combination with design spaces ranging from 17 to 321 variables, which would be infeasible using typical, surrogate-based methods. The multi-fidelity optimization consistently led to a reduction in high-fidelity evaluations compared to single-fidelity optimization for the aerodynamic shape problems, but frequently resulted in a cost penalty for cases involving structural sizing. 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