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Article #1648Re: Small Hovering Hobby Robots
From: Dean Carpenter
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:49
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:49
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Did you ever consider a combination ground effect and nozzle approach ? That is, use an adjustable ground effect skirt, one that can constrict itself down to a nozzle. I have some vague notion of a device much like the old bulb flash reflectors that could unfold from a pie shaped wedge to the full reflector, but obviously it would need to be more sophisticated than that. Exactly how this thing could be constructed, heh heh, I leave up to you all. Would the concept even work ? Say the plenum chamber is 12 inches across in ground effect mode, so thrust is pushing down over a wide area. In nozzle mode all that air whooshing down would be constricted through a 1 inch (say) nozzle, much like a model rocket engine clay nozzle. -- Dean Carpenter uunet!areyes!deano (203) 531-5007 Areyes, Inc. deano@areyes.com "Wherever you go, there you are" sayeth Buckaroo - across the Eighth Dimension
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!areyes!deano From: deano@areyes.com (Dean Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Small Hovering Hobby Robots Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164911.10552@areyes.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:49:11 GMT References: <00949D78.A594B600@vms.csd.mu.edu> <26776@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1991Jun14.204833.9470@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Jun19.054213.1250@km4ba.uucp> Organization: Areyes, Inc. Lines: 18