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Why am I becoming increasingly more 'blase' about BF as the time is getting nearer? Is it due to my job being absolutely crazy this week? I'll be in Windsor Tues and Wed working exceptional hours, but then again, I hear that Calum's doing same. Is (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) 6.2rpm?!?!? As in, about once every ten seconds? Huh. That's pretty slow. Hmm, looks like you missed something there. The "inner" rotor (which actually has more surface area than the outer rotor) spins at 6.2rpm, but the outer rotor spins at a (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Human Powered Helicopter
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(...) -Iain (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think there was also a small Canadian built UAV for the US Navy that used counter rotating coaxial rotors... (URL) even if not coaxial (ie, CH-47) there doesn't seem to be any any out there with counter rotating rotors. Maybe they started on (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Even though he only has to spin the rotors at 6.2 rpm and the total weight of all four blades is only 55.4kg, the sheer size of the “wing-span” is indeed daunting! (...) Ohh the co-axial rotors are just beyond sweet! I doubt I can sum it up (...) (20 years ago, 8-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:I228rK.tty@lugnet.com... (...) size of guy who has to pedal the damn thing. :) But that's really awesome! Love the counter rotating blades. No tail-rotor! Iain (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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THIS is cool. (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: IT has happened!
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(...) My old MS-DOS hart just skiped a cycle. (In fact, I still do maintain a CPU running on this operating system, just for fun ¹), and ever so now and then to regain the feeling that I actually understand what is going on inside a computer). I (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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No words can describe this utter 2-bit goodness that you’re about to experience! (URL) throw baby Ivan - No one reads these anymore. p.s. As I'm trying to post the message through this ridiculous web-interface, this pops-up: ---...--- ATTENTION You (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Webcast help
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We are contemplating a webcast again this year for BrickFest, and in true rtlToronto-style, we've procrastinated. This year, we'd like to ask if there's anyone who can help us out with NT servers on fast backbones for serving video streams. Anyone? (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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