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Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:23:59 GMT
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Until I saw this hovercraft I took your
point of view. Not I am not too sure. There is another person building an
airplane wing using a Technic framework (I think axels and flex hoses) wrapped
in a plastic sheet of some sort that is shrunk down. If you watch the videos of
the hovercraft, you can see how it does lift off of the ground under its own
power.
Many of your points are valid for sure, but that is what makes LEGO so great,
the challenges involved and the creativity required to overcome them.
Jona
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 | | Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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| (...) That hovercraft is excellent, and I like the use of fairings for a propellor. It looks fairly powerful, but I suspect it would produce more radial pressure than linear thrust. Thus no good as a propulsive device. The film used for the skirt (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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| I seriously doubt you could build a flying machine entirely from LEGO. I know this may sound like 18th Century scoffing, but there are some good reasons for this. First is that LEGO plastic is quite dense and makes for fairly thick walls compared to (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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