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Old 6th Jul 2010, 22:32
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Originally Posted by ThinAirDesigns
-- it will take off from a standing start on it's own.
That's the bit I'm having the biggest difficulty grasping. If the wheels are driving the prop, and the vehicle is stationary, then how can it start doing anything. If it were the other way round, driving the wheels from energy extracted from the air, then the direction of energy/power flow would seem to be more reasonable.
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