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At last I manage to make it! With some good help and ideas from pixel ofcourse. Here is the picture: (URL) made two small videos as well to proove that I realy got lift and thrust: (URL) movieclip is about 1.5MB big and is compressed with DivX5 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <senniets@online.no> wrote in message news:HB4zqv.I66@lugnet.com... (...) (2 URLs) g.avi That is really impressive! You had better tell your cat to watch his tail. :) Now, what song are you listening to in the background in the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Iain Hendry" <militaryduckjock@rogers.com> wrote in message news:HB512L.M0L@lugnet.com... (...) (2 URLs) (...) tail. (...) Thanx, well, my cat was verry curious (as cat normaly are) about the fan thing that blowed air into her face. She tried to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <senniets@online.no> wrote in message news:HB521J.28s@lugnet.com... (...) wacked (...) A good thought :) (...) Oh no way! That's awesome. I hadn't got any of the new stuff by Underworld yet (mostly because I've had such a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The picture loaded fine. It looks great. I saw the hovercraft video and pictures by "pixel", too. Impressive. I look forward to seeing this application develope. I was not able to see the videos above. I got only sound with the first video. I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <senniets@online.no> wrote in message news:HB4zqv.I66@lugnet.com... (...) hi Øyvind good job! it seems to be your fan is more powerfull than mine some questions to your moc where the hell is tunnel? :) in fact it seems the tunnel (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Paul Krieg" <pdkrieg@epix.net> wrote in message news:HB5vFM.2vB@lugnet.com... (...) look (...) video. (...) I got (...) Well I did not mention it in my message here at Lugnet, but I wrote in the description.txt file that both files is compressed (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"pixel" <pixsrv@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message news:HB5y2E.8B0@lugnet.com... (...) Probably, I've testet your fan construction now, but I'm not sure that I made it correct because I have a hard time getting the blades to stay in the right angel. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) that part meant. Goes to show how new I am to computers. I will try it again when I get home from work. :-)) (...) The sail are from set 6351. So far (years of building) I have not had much trouble at all with blades flying at a high rate of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) demonstrate the the hovercrafts lifting potential to carry its own batteries or maybe an RCX. Very nice. Thanks again. Regards, Paul K (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Paul Krieg" <pdkrieg@epix.net> wrote in message news:HB6r15.ABG@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) cling (...) the (...) use (...) do you mean the profile the same as in plane wing i can imagine the application like this axle, tubing, space, axle this is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <senniets@online.no> wrote in message news:HB6L2G.EoC@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) my blades was mounted on pins with friction + the rubber belts protected the rotor against exploding (...) i saw your fan rotating inside the body (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, my rotor blades are a bit big (about 12 x 36 L). They do not have the profile of an actual airplane wing. They are made this way to save weight as your hoover craft is. I did not use any flex tube at this time. (...) I am considering two (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Paul Krieg" <pdkrieg@epix.net> wrote in message news:HB9KH9.8H1@lugnet.com... (...) oh G! :) what motor will rotate it? it has to create much resistance on the air (...) but it could cause the hovercraft will rotate instead of propeller :))) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I may sound silly. Since you ask... I am trying to build a helicopter that will be powered by a pneumatic engine. That is way it needs to be large. I was stumped at how to make the rotor wings untill I saw your hovercraft. I made a couple test (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"pixel" <pixsrv@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message news:HB9n89.DzD@lugnet.com... (...) news:HB9KH9.8H1@lugnet.com... (...) With those big blades you do not need the high speed to get lift, so you can use a geared down motor for this I think? But that (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Paul Krieg" <pdkrieg@epix.net> wrote in message news:HBAB08.I83@lugnet.com... (...) not at all !!! sometimes i'm going the way which leads to nowhere sometimes even more than once since the working model appears (...) new pistons (with silver (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <senniets@online.no> wrote in message news:HBAoL9.9CH@lugnet.com... (...) when we see helicopters they have slim blades with very high rpm so i think wide blades are not too good but keep working... i saw few applications just (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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<<snip>> (...) This is correct. Another way is to use a "tube"-shaped skirt, blow air into that and let extra air pass through holes on the inside of the skirt. Might be harder to construct though. This way the air comes from the skirt and blows (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I think one reason helicopter blades are so thin is because they are changing pitch every cycle with the cyclic control. Thicker blades would require much more torque to change the pitch, making the hub much bigger. Also the length of blade (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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