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Re: * 1999 *
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:13:30 GMT
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Matthew Miller writes:

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...

They're not wings. They're just stabilizers. Wings wouldn't do much good in
space, now would they?

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.

                                                      Bye.       Rene
e-mail: virsik@us.svf.stuba.sk



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  Re: * 1999 *
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
  Re: * 1999 *
 
(...) Well, I guess in certain emergency situations it might need to land ON a plain, but I'm not sure how it would land like a plain. :) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
  Re: * 1999 *
 
<snip> Or this (...) You must be the first one to use this expression.. Eric (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: * 1999 *
 
(...) If this is all the technic we get this year, you're right indeed. But hopefully this is just a little sideline. (...) They're not wings. They're just stabilizers. Wings wouldn't do much good in space, now would they? (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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