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Re: Lego Glider
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Date: 
Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:13:49 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Daron Williams wrote:
> 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.

Daron,

Wow, that's cool, one more thing done that I didn't think was possible in Lego.

Thanks,

George



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  Re: Lego Glider
 
Thanks! :) Hopefully newer versions will glide even further. (23 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  Lego Glider
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic) ! 

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