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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:25:06 +0100 "Rob Turk" wrote:
Let's scrap our puny little planes, the future is he http://www.taero.com/ Go, go Gadget Wings! Rob Competition to produce nothing marketable. I guess that's a form of competition. These projects never seem to get off the ground. It's just not gonna fly. These guys have there heads in the clouds. They're working by the seat of their pants. (did I miss any?) R. Hubbell |
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"R. Hubbell" wrote in message news:yQvBb.29424$ZE1.619@fed1read04... On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:25:06 +0100 "Rob Turk" wrote: Let's scrap our puny little planes, the future is he http://www.taero.com/ Go, go Gadget Wings! Rob Competition to produce nothing marketable. I guess that's a form of competition. These projects never seem to get off the ground. It's just not gonna fly. These guys have there heads in the clouds. They're working by the seat of their pants. (did I miss any?) R. Hubbell I think they're working by the clouds, and have their heads in the seat of their pants. Tim Ward |
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Ernest Christley wrote in message .com...
I've got to quit looking for a real job and bone up on my Photoshop skills. Then I can 'invent' the next car in the sky and be rich. Photoshop you just use to add the background. What you really want is 3D Studio Max... |
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"Tim Ward" wrote:
I think they're working by the clouds, and have their heads in the seat of their pants. They'd better keep 'em there - sticking them up in the 300mph slipstream like the guy in the (doctored) photo isn't a good idea at all. Mark Hickey |
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: http://www.protoscience.com/protobike.html It's GOTTA BE a joke, but who knows... The "products" in this WEB site don't even qualify as "vaporware", they are flat and purely simply "BULL****WARE" (just read about the "ProtoModem", my GOD this idiot doesn't even have a clue about FCC regulations!!! ) What? You don't want to do 1 megabit per second plus, on a dialup??? G Or the open case multi-terabyte hard drive? The address is Anaheim - maybe they've been spending too much time in the Magic Kingdom. [Did you notice that you can sign up for "exclusive territories" as a dealer! Get in on the ground floor. And, looking at their flying motorcycle, I'd say *ground* is probably fairly accurate.] ----------------------------------------------- James M. Knox TriSoft ph 512-385-0316 1109-A Shady Lane fax 512-366-4331 Austin, Tx 78721 ----------------------------------------------- |
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"James M. Knox" wrote in message ... Or the open case multi-terabyte hard drive? Well their drives (which might some day be ugradable at some unspecified cost) to a larger capacity, aren't priced very competitively to dumb drives of similar specs (running just about $1/gigabyte for 7200 RPM ATA drives). |
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Hi all...
This topic got me thinking about "aerocars" and during a night of tossing and turning it occurred to me.... Most (if not all) aerocar "inventors" have their approach backwards.... They are trying to take a CAR and make it into a plane.... Which isnt impossible.....as long as your plane is capable of being say 750 to 1500 pounds overwieght......which means you need a REALLY big plane to absorb that kinda fat and/or your gonna have a plane that sucks performance wise (ie barely flies)... And they want to take car drivers and make them into pilots.....todays drivers expect all kinds of luxuries.....lots of room, ac, stereo, big cushy seats, tire burning amounts of HP etc etc....which all adds way too much wieght.... And besides anything shaped like a car is still gonna bite drag wise....... So Lets turn this around! Lets take pilots and make them car drivers.... Any ground "vehicle" that is even a bit quiter or roomier than most small planes would keep a pilot happy......if they had virtually ANYTHING to drive other than a bike when they got where they were going they would be thrilled... So, instead....lets take a plane and make it into a car..... And it seems to me the most obvious config for that is a canard design...... Make the front canards removable or configurable so that the provide 0/negative lift when used in "car" mode...... make the front of the canard plane "breakable" about where the the rear wings start....and thats where your gonna put 2 "rear " wheels.... Now you have a decently areodynamic 3 wheeled motorcyle/trike..... For such a lightwieght ground vehicle you probably only need 10hp give or take for decent acceleration and top speeds..... What about an engine you say? Screw messing with the aircraft engine....which would entail all sorts of heavy drives/clutches/transmissions/removable parts/doing scary things to your very important aircraft engine....and just generally doing things aircraft engines arent designed/meant to do.... Instead, lets just carry a small 2nd engine to move our chopped off front of the plane around....... You could use a 2 stroke ultralight engine.....one model offered is roughly 27hp and weighs about 50 lbs....it might even have enough hp/torque to drive your "car" with just a direct drive....or at worst a 2/3 speed transmission/redrive..... Now, obviously this "Burtan Trike" would be a death trapp if you got hit by another car........but so are motorcyles....and small planes when you land very badly for that matter.... So, if you went with something like this dont you think you could keep the weight penalty down to say 200 lbs? over a straight airplane of similiar design? more? maybe even less? Just some wild thoughts here... Blll |
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