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Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:30:11 GMT
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Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.=StopSpammers=com>
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Steve Baker wrote:

That was the SRN1 - the worlds first working full-sized
hovercraft - which (amazingly) didn't have a skirt.

Several of the original hovercraft didn't have skirts, they were the
running board sitting on the ground.

There is a simple childrens science experiment to demonstrate the effect.
Take a sewing thread spool (the old wood kind work best) and put a straw
down the middle. Then blow down the straw, the spool will float.


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(...) That was the SRN1 - the worlds first working full-sized hovercraft - which (amazingly) didn't have a skirt. You can see a picture of it here: (URL) Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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