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Richard Stewart
February 5th 04, 12:11 AM
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Whirlygig.htm

An interesting looking 'thing'

(I found this posted on sci.space.history)

Cheers,
Richard
Richard Stewart
February 6th 04, 12:06 PM
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:11:33 +1100, Richard Stewart
> wrote:

>http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Whirlygig.htm
>
>An interesting looking 'thing'
>
>(I found this posted on sci.space.history)
>
>Cheers,
>Richard
>

My god - it appears they flew one...

http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/Papin_Phot/PR_lac_face.JPG

Cheers,
Richard
Jim Doyle
February 6th 04, 02:59 PM
"Richard Stewart" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:11:33 +1100, Richard Stewart
> > wrote:
>
> >http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Whirlygig.htm
> >
> >An interesting looking 'thing'
> >
> >(I found this posted on sci.space.history)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Richard
> >
>
> My god - it appears they flew one...
>
> http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/Papin_Phot/PR_lac_face.JPG
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>

Or at least they found it could float!
Jim
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