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Re: * 1999 *
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:17:00 GMT
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Rene Virsik wrote:
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> Matthew Miller writes:
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> > > Town Space centre - the body of this Space Shuttle is good but where are • WINGS
> > > ??? I hope that this little black pieces in back of this shuttle are NOT
> > > ! wings My god...
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> > They're not wings. They're just stabilizers. Wings wouldn't do much good in
> > space, now would they?
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> Hehe... but IF it is SPACE SHUTTLE then it will landing like a plain. You know
> - Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia... and all this NASA Space Shuttles. ;)) And
> LEGO did just some Space Shuttles. Like this wonderful Technic model. Or this
> Town Space Shuttle centres back in the 90's. (I'm missing a Model Team version)
> But this new Space Shuttle.... no comment.
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> Bye. Rene
> e-mail: virsik@us.svf.stuba.sk
And even with the larger wing size on the real shuttles (compared to the
new lego one) they
are hard to land. Also, some of the new shuttle concepts, which do not
use boosters for take off, have
yet even smaller wings. the import factors in creating a booster-less
shuttle concentrate on weight reduction and larger cargo/fuel capacity,
ie removing wing area, which as noted above is not needed in space.
landing the shuttle will just require more skilled pilots and larger
flaps to reduce airspeed and add control.
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| (...) WINGS (...) Hehe... but IF it is SPACE SHUTTLE then it will landing like a plain. You know - Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia... and all this NASA Space Shuttles. ;)) And LEGO did just some Space Shuttles. Like this wonderful Technic model. Or (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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