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Re: Intermodal container handler
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 28 May 2004 03:05:16 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Troy Routley wrote:
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I’ve entered this as a second entry in the fleebnork contest, though overall
I think I like my municipal shuttle better.
This is a craft for handling containers, that serves double duty as a
caboose on long container trains. Sans cargo, it flies in a orientation 90
degrees to how it flies when handling a container. If it is to handle more
then one container, container drones are used to seperate the containers
and provide more manoeuvring control.
The two pictures showing the whole train include my previously published
spacetruck as the engine, so don’t consider that vessel if/when considering
this entry in the contest.
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This is pretty cool, I must say. The minifig doesn’t rotate inside the cockpit,
does it? Even if not, the overall design is pretty sweet, I like the bumpers and
the engines, and pretty much the whole thing.
-Dan Rubin
Chair of the Cyber-braintrust
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Thanks for the kudos. The minifig isn't on any kind of rotating chair. The craft was designed so that he is standing when in the container handling orientation. As the design neared completion, I noticed that it looked pretty cool turned 90 (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| I've entered this as a second entry in the fleebnork contest, though overall I think I like my municipal shuttle better. This is a craft for handling containers, that serves double duty as a caboose on long container trains. Sans cargo, it flies in (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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