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Re: 10024Red Baron
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Date: 
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 05:42:29 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Kerry Raymond writes:
Thanks for the review, Richie.

Very good. While much more swooshable than the 'Camel (it's a bit more
compact, and a whole lot sturdier)

Here I would have to disagree. I don't find either of the Camel or the Baron
to be particularly sturdy and hence not particularly swooshable.

Hmmm... I may have to collect more data on this. Certainly my prelimary
data, based on medium speed swooshing at both full arm extension and half
arm extension, combined with several strafing runs (complete with machine
gun sound effects) against the now shipless Snottler crew, and some
emergency landings on the living room floor indicated the 'Baron was
infinitely more swooshable than the Camel.

I'll report my findings (possibly with graphs and charts) in due course.

It occurs to me that your high speed building techniques may be leading to
ABS fatigue and hence mid-air breakup of your aircraft ;-)

The new struts on
the Baron seem to come apart as much as the Camel's did. Indeed, during
construction, the Baron's tri-wings were constantly collapsing, although once
completed, it became a little more robust, but still well short of swooshable.

I definitely need more data!

Both sets looks good though (and the red-ness of the Baron makes it the
stand-out of the pair), and I figure the real planes were probably pretty
fragile as well, so arguably it's historically accurate for the Lego
renditions to be pretty flimsy as well.

Cheers

Richie



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  Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
 
(...) I conducted some experiments last night.... see (URL) for details. No charts yet, though :-) Richie (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au) ! 

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Thanks for the review, Richie. (...) Here I would have to disagree. I don't find either of the Camel or the Baron to be particularly sturdy and hence not particularly swooshable. The new struts on the Baron seem to come apart as much as the Camel's (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)

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