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Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
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Date: 
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:42:02 GMT
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Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@graphics.stanford.edu> wrote:
I'd give a link but my internet connection is screwed up at the moment
and I can't access Google (and a lot of other sites).

Here is the web site for the company that makes the heli/plane leveling
device I was talking about:

http://www.fmadirect.com/

The device is the Co-Pilot.  I have been scared to get a plane or heli but
now I am not so scared.  Now I just need the $$$.

-Kekoa



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  RE: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
 
(...) As a kid, I dreamed of having a heli RC model. As I got older and learned that it needed some serious dedication and "talent" to pilot such a expensive and "deadly" toy, it scared me off. This article, and these devices such as the Co-Pilot (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
 
(...) Never used one, no, but have been tempted to try out an r/c plane or heli after reading about this other device you can install in a plane or heli that senses the horizon and adjusts the controls to keep the plane/heli level. Apparently this (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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