In article <3d4014e0@news.povray.org>, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> 
wrote:

> Couldn't you just add an internal fly-wheel to take care of the
> counter-rotation?

It would add a lot of mass to something that already has to carry quite 
a bit, take up space, and make maneuvering a bit trickier. I think 
counterrotating blades would be better. Those little extensions 
(rockets?) don't look very powerful, larger turbines would be better and 
could both stabilize the body and power the blades.

Or how about a 3 stage thing: those lift blades as they are, stubbier, 
fatter blades on a middle section that spins the other direction at a 
lower rate, and the cargo legs would spin slowest to keep the cargo 
intact. Sensors would be on the middle section, they would get a 360 
degree sweep of the surrounding area, and the spinning would protect it 
from laser weapons which would have to concentrate on one area to heat 
it up.
I think they need more vertical streamlining though...they are pushing a 
lot of air against themselves. With that paint job, looks like they are 
ready for snowy conditions...that thing could be for drilling a hole in 
ice (using the blades for rotation power instead of lift?), and that 
could be a rack for dropping torpedoes into the resulting hole. The 
torpedoes could wait in the ice until they detect a sub beneath them, 
activate a heat charge to melt free of the ice, and then go after the 
sub.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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