"gemelli david" <d.g### [at] xlstudiocom> wrote in message
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> once again, the flying thingy....
> now, I will work on a complete scene and make more experiments to find a
> good metal texture for the objects...
>
> comments/ideas welcome as usual.

    I didn't mean to start a controversy with the counter-rotating bit...

    I agree that the arms, while they would work, don't look as good. I
could suggest vanes in the body, ports in the upper thigh, a segment of the
upper thigh that is a rotating cylinder that acts as a sail against the
downdraft, the same arms but sticking out from below or similar "turbo"
ports in the spherical undercarriage.

    The rotating cylinders seem coolest to me. But then, I have always been
fascinated with the rotating sail idea. But they add a moving part. Probably
the best technical plan is smaller turboports on the bottom, 3
Quarter-spheres with vents sort of between the legs. Not as large a lever,
but if you just add more thrust...

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