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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: The trouble with Apple
Keywords: The best way to make a great (?) idea fly
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Date: 25 Dec 89 16:24:11 GMT
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In <2692@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
>	3. That helicar has no stabilizer.  There's no way it could fly.

	What if the body of the helicar was asymetric in such a way that the
downwash was deflected off to one side, providing the counter-torque required
to keep the vehicle from just spinning under its blades?  Maybe it's just not
obvious in the animation that it's done that way.  Maybe there is a reaction
jet on one side of the body?
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