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Re: For those who are skeptical about propellers - Team 2526

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Originally Posted by Cyberphil View Post
Good, intresting design, but i have one question. Isn't there a rule about the wheels being parallel to each other? In the one picture you can clearly see how the frontwheels turn with the propelers while the back wheels just stay stationary. Is this still legal? From how i read it and heard, it doesn't seem legal.
You're thinking of <R06>, which specifies that the axis of rotation of the wheel must be parallel to the floor. It doesn't say anything about the axis of rotation of the axis of rotation.
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