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Re: Batts De-icer at Joe's Lego Page
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Fri, 28 May 1999 21:24:20 GMT
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Beautiful pictures, Fredrik. You're right; there are many Lego ideas in your
pictures. I love the scenic beach pictures at Krabi.
Joe
"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
> Joe Davenport <jdavenport@mid-tech.com> writes:
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> > I have just completed a page for my Batts sprayer. I gave it a little
> > story to go along with the pictures. Check it out if you like at:
> >
> > http://userweb.springnet1.com/jdavenp/Batts.html
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> That's really cool.
>
> It reminds me of what I saw on the (new) airport in Oslo recently.
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> When I went to Thailand earlier this year, I saw some really interesting
> vehicles. The first was on the runway. We had an early flight, so
> there was some icing on the wings. (As you have guessed, this was in
> Oslo, not Bangkok.) To remove the ice, some really odd vehicles were
> used. They looked like mobile cranes, or telescopic handlers, except
> that the driver's cabin was on the end of the boom! The cabin had some
> nozzles which was used to spray some anti ice substance on the wings.
>
> In the same category came a truck, which had something that looked like
> a telescopic boom, but the driver could steer the vehicle from a cabin
> on the end of the boom as well. It was really weird to see the truck
> driving around, with no driver in the "real" cabin.
>
> I thought about making such vehicles in LEGO while in-flight, but when I
> arrived in Thailand, many other sources of inspiration appeared. There
> were the infamous tuk-tuks, the three-wheeled taxi-cabs, as well as long
> tail boats and many other things. See the pictures at the link below
> for more.
>
> Fredrik
> --
> http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/thailand-1999/
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| (...) It reminds me of what I saw on the (new) airport in Oslo recently. When I went to Thailand earlier this year, I saw some really interesting vehicles. The first was on the runway. We had an early flight, so there was some icing on the wings. (...) (27 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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