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Re: flying helicopter? (was: orrery update)
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:08:41 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Don Rogerson writes:
> My Orrery page has been getting a lot of hits from the link on Andrew
> Lipson's page (Thanks, Andrew!) so I thought I'd let people know I've added
> the LDraw files and put up some other projects at
> http://www.donrogerson.com/bricks
Hi Don,
Just browsed your site fully and wow cool!
A suggestion for your helicopter - if you can build a single rotor with
enough lift, why not just build 2 and connect them, like the chinook
http://rotored.arc.nasa.gov/activity/chinook.html
That way the extra weight is offset by the extra lift 8?)
ROSCO
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| (...) Ross - The challenge I'd run into would be coordinating the blades so they don't chop each other to pieces. Or I'd have to space them out quite a bit - the rotor I used in my last try had a radius of about 16L. Another problem I'd face is (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| My Orrery page has been getting a lot of hits from the link on Andrew Lipson's page (Thanks, Andrew!) so I thought I'd let people know I've added the LDraw files and put up some other projects at (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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