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From: George Huxtable (no email)
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 06:18:30 EDT
Being still in the steam age of dialup rather than broadband, I still
pay by the minute for long downloads, which tie up my phone. So when
an attachment from Nav-l was still downloading after nearly half an
hour, I was roundly cursing the idiot who was behind it.
Until I saw that the character it came from was Peter Ifland, who
never sends anything silly.
It was a movie, and I reluctantly decided to try running it, seeing
that it came from Peter.
Wow! It's a demo. of what can be done with an aerobatic model
aircraft, in an indoor hall. Not really anything to do with
navigation, of course....
I found it hard to believe my eyes. Not just that a model aicraft
could be so manoevrable and agile, but that a human mind at a control
panel could think himself into its cockpit, and react in such a short
timeframe, to keep it so completely under control. In many ways, it
must be harder to do such tricks with a model than with the real
thing, from inside it.
If anyone has simply binned it rather than viewed it, it should be
fished out and given a try. Quite mind-blowing!
I didn't see a propellor on the model. Did I miss it? How was it
propelled; anyone know?
Not that I want to give any encouragement to long attachments, on
Nav-l.
George.
contact George Huxtable at
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
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