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Could you bring yourself to destroy a 21 foot long X-wing replica?
billf:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on October 04, 2007, 10:05:53 pm ---NASA also used to land their space capsules with chutes.
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Yeah, in water.
psik0tik:
--- Quote from: shardian on October 04, 2007, 10:55:18 am ---
--- Quote from: psik0tik on October 04, 2007, 10:25:14 am ---Point taken :) if they really want to impress...someone should get in it and steer it.
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Steer it with what? Maybe if they slammed their body against the side they wanted to turn... ;D
It is a really neat project, and it appears the team is made up of Aerospace engineers with access to kick ass equipment and software. It seems they have run calculations to support the design, but most likely a joint will fail due to fasteners or craftsmanship.
So, I'd say it will go up well, but will probably break in the air due to stress on the wing joints. If I were them, I would have made the wings rigid and locked in the open position instead of trying to open them in the air.
Now the part I think is funny is that they think 3 parachutes will let it land fully in tact. It will still hit the ground with enough velocity to crunch the wood all to hell.
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I was being sarcastic...although you would be know as a uber nerd across the globe that flew the first one.
shardian:
The real reason none of them are piloting is because they are all too fat to fit in it.
ChadTower:
Unless they actualy have some sort of control, they haven't flown it. They've launched it. It's not much of an achievement to build something and fling it upwards.
ahofle:
You've obviously never dabbled in high powered rocketry. Just getting a simple tube with 4 fins to take off and land without failure is challenging enough -- I can't imagine how difficult launching something like that giant X-wing model would be. Getting all 4 'M' engines to simultaneously ignite will be critical -- if one doesn't light up, I'm sure it will be completely destroyed. They've taken it an extra step and added radio controlled parts.
Here's a video of a a 165 lb rocket taking off with 3 M engines.
http://www.ddeville.com/images/freedomphiter.asf
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