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Re: Peether T-8 (Lightning contest entry)
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:03:40 GMT
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Ok Douglas you got me with this. Let there be plenty of wings in .space! It’s true we need more beer inside a ship (space gets boring when you’re just travelling, no pirates encounters, etc...). Let’s put the engines out, let’s load the barels!

Seriously, reading your post I thought about Babylon V and the, hmmmmm, small space fighter humans use in there : 4 wings for 4 engines. You’re right... and I have no more reason not to use wings in .space anymore... Thanks!

Cheers,

JP.



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  Re: Peether T-8 (Lightning contest entry)
 
(...) I personally don’t get offended by winged spacecraft since I am generally predisposed to finding aerodynamic looking shapes aesthetically pleasing. However, wings in space can serve legitimate functional purposes. I generally rationalize (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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