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Re: UpForce

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Originally Posted by Brant Bowen
I'm not very good at physics, but the force would have to be greater than 130 lbs. i think, maybe something like 130 times 9.8 to counteract gravity???

Anyways I still don't think you can get a prop spinning fast enough to take off. Also take into consideration how much it would take to control where that thing goes.

Sound like a safety hazard to me.

no, a 130 pound force acting directly up on your robot will cancel gravity completely. to actually go up instead of hovering, you need more.

But you aren't going to get 130lbs of force out of a propellor powered by the kit motors.


HEY!! What if you used a wind up propellor using all that elastic tubing . . . .

hmmmmmmmm.

Ach, I will never be able to sell that to my team, but hey, its an idea.

The bad part is this: if you miss the bar and your prop winds down 15 feet in the air, you no longer have a robot!

Heh, imagine it flying out of control into the crowd, with rapidly spinning blades of DEATH!!
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