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Lego Glider
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I just finished an all lego glider. Well actually the vertical part of the tail
is paper, however it would be easy to replace that with paper from a lego book,
I would just rather not do that unless I have to. The wings, body and the rest
of the tail are all made from lego parts, the blue parts are the "solar panels"
from the Mars Exploration Rover:#7471. Here is a link to the gliders page:
http://www.dratrobotics.com/dratg.html
And here are links to larger versions of two of the pictures:
http://www.dratrobotics.com/drat6vb.jpg
http://www.dratrobotics.com/drat5vb.jpg
This glider can glide for about 18.5ft, that was its average glide distance. I
will be making a CAD of it soon. The movies are not very good, I had to use the
camera from the lego vision command set, and unfortulently the glider moves to
fast to be seen clearly by the camera. Well all comments are of course welcome,
I will try to answer any questions.
I'm currently working on a new version that will eliminate the need for the
paper part of the tail.
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| so we've got the winner :)) looking on the pictures i assume the flat pannels are realy flat i mean the don't have the aerodynamic shape? when i've been taking about the plane with oyo i did tell him to use strong plastic (ie from the folder) to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Daron, Wow, that's cool, one more thing done that I didn't think was possible in Lego. Thanks, George (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hi Daron, Congratulations! A great achievent! It's exciting to see all of the ideas and progress that is made by people around the globe. It's much like the progress that lead to real powered flight a century ago. I will not be the one to say that (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| The CAD is up on my website: (URL) You can download it from the homepage under "new cads", the gliders own page under projects, or under the download section. The file is 242kb, it includes all the needed information. Its my first CAD so I kinda (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Lego Glider
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| An impressive achievement ! I also had a look to your other robots, I especially liked your knoting bot ((URL) - for sure a first too ! Philo www.philohome.com (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| Excellent choice of parts for the wing surface! Good deal, 18 feet? not bad, Looks like the prize goes to you! Congrats. Hey cool site too! & Thanks for featuring my robot. :) e (URL) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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