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Re: flying helicopter? (was: orrery update)
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:05:23 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> writes:
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> > > http://british.nerp.net/lego/av8/chopper/index.html
> > > and then click in "General Layouts"
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> > Checked out that page, and the experimental helicopter you have shown
> > seems like an impossible setup. How do the two rotors, the way they
> > are mounted, keep from chopping each other's drive shaft to bits?
> > Even if they're at different levels, one would slice the other's
> > shaft... I'm puzzled.
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> There's a small angle between the two rotor shafts, that's the
> solution. A clever one, indeed.
There is a military helicopter with this shaft arrangement in the Russian
armed forces. IIRC, the Kirov carrier had some of these choppers at some
point in time.
Pedro
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