Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02725
To: "Beam List (E-mail)" beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Ken Warren ken.warren@dsltd.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:36:20 +0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Flying BEAMers?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Smith [SMTP:nik@resourcekt.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:04 AM
> To: BEAM Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Flying BEAMers?
>
> Yep I have! I got myself a radio controled "UFO", well really it was
> an 36"
> foil envolope balloon filled with helium with two small duct fans on
> the
> bottom mail order from some company in canada (shipped to england) for
> about
> 50 quid.
> All I did was connect its two fans to a photopopper, glued the
> solarcell to
> the top and tie it to a bit of thin fishing line (trust me the line IS
> needed) and my "UFO" was soon flying arround on its own.
> Sorry, I can't remember what the company was called but I do remember
> they
> had a website (I will send you the URL as soon as I find it)
> Adios.
> Nik.
>
> >Has anyone created a flying BEAM robot yet? I am working on a design
> >and was wonderng if anyone out there has had any success. It
> wouldn't
> >be capable of sustained flight of course... Then it could fly away!
>
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