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Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:40:52 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jona Jeffords wrote:
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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.
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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 obviously isn’t LEGO though, so everything I said
still stands.
I have no objection to anyone using additional materials in their models, but
that’s not the point I raised. My very first sentence was “I seriously doubt
you could build a flying machine ENTIRELY from LEGO”.
Jason R
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| "Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:HG0rs4.Jx1@lugnet.com... (...) this is probably true but we set this idea some time ago and we came to the same conclusion and we are trying to use as less as possible non-lego (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Zipper--the two-piece flying helicopter
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| Until I saw this (URL) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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