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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The trouble with Apple
Keywords: The best way to make a great (?) idea fly
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Date: 26 Dec 89 02:15:19 GMT
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In article <2692@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:

-Major gripe:
-	3. That helicar has no stabilizer.  There's no way it could fly.
-And there's certainly no way it could execute that graceful turn into the
-sunset.  In other words, it's a terrible idea.  A great visual
-presentation, but all style and no substance.  But I suppose that
-marketing types (nor Macintosh users ?) are not supposed to know anything
-about aerodynamics. It ends with the sloga "the best way to make a great idea
-fly."  The idea may fly, but that helicar never will.

I suppose you are not aware of the Hughes NOTAR (NO TAil Rotor) concept, which
is being applied to the Hughes 500 series helicopter, among others.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)