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Intermodal container handler
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Thu, 27 May 2004 00:22:45 GMT
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I’ve entered this as a second entry in the fleebnork contest, though overall I think I like my municipal shuttle better.

This is a craft for handling containers, that serves double duty as a caboose on long container trains. Sans cargo, it flies in a orientation 90 degrees to how it flies when handling a container. If it is to handle more then one container, container drones are used to seperate the containers and provide more manoeuvring control.

The two pictures showing the whole train include my previously published spacetruck as the engine, so don’t consider that vessel if/when considering this entry in the contest.





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  Re: Intermodal container handler
 
Very cool stuff. I was impressed with your design when I found this on brickshelf yesterday... -JSM (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Intermodal container handler
 
(...) This is pretty cool, I must say. The minifig doesn't rotate inside the cockpit, does it? Even if not, the overall design is pretty sweet, I like the bumpers and the engines, and pretty much the whole thing. -Dan Rubin Chair of the (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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