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Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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Date: 
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:48:37 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Richie Dulin writes:

I conducted some experiments last night.... see
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/au/~1285/kites for details.

No charts yet, though :-)

Richie

I applaud your thoroughness, however, regarding the following passage:

"...the tester decided not to continue out of fear for the strength of the
Baron’s tailskid (his sole LEGO brown minifig shovel). It may well have
survived four more landings, but he wasn’t going to risk it."

Surely for the purposes of a complete test, and the public demand nothing
less, you could have replaced the rare brown one with a common or garden
grey one.

Allister



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  Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
 
(...) But of course that would be a case of using "non" aircraft parts on an aircraft! Having worked on aircraft for 8 years I can tell you that is a little bit of a no-no (only a little bit, as fencing wire 'was' considered ok on early planes, ie (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.loc.au)

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(...) 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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