GoodGawd - it lifts 540 TONS!

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Post #18,998 by Ashton 11/20/01 3:07:23 PM Reply	GoodGawd - it lifts 540 TONS! Who says (it's just) Muricans / Texans with an anal fixation on Biggest !! Talk about yer air-launched Moon Rockets !? Gotta look later at t'other links. I trust we'll hear from Doug Marker re Cartercopter patents ;-) and stuff. Nice sleuthing.. A.
Post #19,113 by drewk 11/21/01 11:29:01 AM Reply	Well they do have a plane ... That can damn near carry a C-5. Can't find it after a few minutes Googling, but they have the heaviest of heavy-lift planes in their current Air Force. We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]

Doesn't someone here do this? - (drewk) - (33) - Nov. 20, 2001, 12:10:25 PM EST

That's *intensely* annoying. - (CRConrad) - (32) - Nov. 20, 2001, 01:07:30 PM EST

Wing In Ground Effect - (cforde) - (30) - Nov. 20, 2001, 01:50:53 PM EST

Then there's ... - (drewk) - (2) - Nov. 20, 2001, 02:34:01 PM EST

GoodGawd - it lifts 540 TONS! - (Ashton) - (1) - Nov. 20, 2001, 03:07:23 PM EST

Well they do have a plane ... - (drewk) - Nov. 21, 2001, 11:29:01 AM EST

Oh, so *that's* what it is! - (CRConrad) - (26) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:08:26 PM EST

prior art - (cforde) - (1) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:38:58 PM EST

Naaah.... Where's the engine?!? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:51:25 PM EST

Dunno about 'handling' though.. - (Ashton) - (7) - Nov. 20, 2001, 10:46:16 PM EST

One aspect of handling - (Ric Locke) - (6) - Nov. 20, 2001, 11:03:34 PM EST

Gyroscopes? Don't got to show no steenkin Gyroscopes! - (Ashton) - (2) - Nov. 20, 2001, 11:55:57 PM EST

Don't got to show no steenkin Gyroscopes! - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2001, 12:27:40 AM EST

Still a gnat or two, but.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 01:15:31 AM EST

Didn't know that. But, I assume we can do without it? - (CRConrad) - (2) - Nov. 21, 2001, 11:18:17 AM EST

It's called 'countersteering' - (drewk) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2001, 12:27:27 PM EST

Nice links - and.. so That's how the girl's rig works! - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 05:57:25 PM EST

uh ahem - (boxley) - (15) - Nov. 21, 2001, 01:11:52 PM EST

You thinking James Bond? - (CRConrad) - (14) - Nov. 21, 2001, 02:43:20 PM EST

Heh.. have to dig out some Vincent lore. - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 06:24:01 PM EST

nope, thinking nancy lake. - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 24, 2001, 11:27:24 AM EST

Ah... She any relation of Ricki's? But: - (CRConrad) - Nov. 28, 2001, 11:36:43 AM EST

Bombardier - (Ric Locke) - (10) - Nov. 26, 2001, 11:39:51 PM EST

Coupla points... - (CRConrad) - (9) - Nov. 28, 2001, 11:52:24 AM EST

Pivots - (Ric Locke) - (8) - Nov. 28, 2001, 07:29:39 PM EST

The Higher School of Aquatic Engineering. (Didn't go to it.) - (CRConrad) - (7) - Nov. 29, 2001, 10:31:59 AM EST

A land-based conundrum.. - (Ashton) - (6) - Nov. 29, 2001, 03:42:38 PM EST

Metastability - (Ric Locke) - (5) - Nov. 29, 2001, 08:32:00 PM EST

LRPD's eval: IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Epithetic Yammerers - (Ashton) - (4) - Nov. 29, 2001, 11:29:17 PM EST

Thought that was "Pathetic Yammerers" -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Nov. 30, 2001, 12:24:16 AM EST

It is - (Silverlock) - (1) - Nov. 30, 2001, 08:37:45 AM EST

LRPD be versatile as well as prescient.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 30, 2001, 04:28:57 PM EST

Where's the skill? - (Ric Locke) - Nov. 30, 2001, 08:19:33 PM EST

*intensely* annoying. - (Ric Locke) - Nov. 20, 2001, 08:29:01 PM EST

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