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Re: Amazing...
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2006 May 22, 11:18 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2006 May 22, 11:18 +0100
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 george@huxtable.u-net.com or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.