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Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:12:32 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jona Jeffords wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, James Loewen wrote:
> > I came up with this a little while ago. It's extremely simple, but it's kind of
> > fun and it's the first thing I've seen built of Legos that can actually fly!
> > You can check it out here:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=45172
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> > PLMKWYT,
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> > jrl
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> Pretty neat.
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> I have a friend who built something very similar to that about 2 years ago. He
> was playing around with gear trains (gearing up and gearing down) and he got a
> geared-motor to drive a gear train that spun up a model just like yours enough
> that it would lift-off on its own.
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> Jona
Yeah, I figured someone else had to think of something like this sometime. I
know how to make a gear train that can get it spinning fast enough, but I
haven't quite figured out how to make it release well yet.
-jrl
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| (...) Pretty neat. I have a friend who built something very similar to that about 2 years ago. He was playing around with gear trains (gearing up and gearing down) and he got a geared-motor to drive a gear train that spun up a model just like yours (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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