John writes -
"I discovered this while searching the 'Net today. Make a rubber band powered helicopter out of a business card? Wow! This sounds simply fantastic!" - Link & translated page.
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Nov 28, 2006 10:47 PM
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Many years ago, in the early web/late gopher days, I downloaded plans for a nifty little airplane made out of a magazine subscription card. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Does anyone have a copy?
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I seem to recall something like was mentioned in this article only a few months ago.
Sure, that was from a business card, but you could easily scale it up to postcard size.
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At first I was having a hard time understanding how this was rubber band powered, I just tought it was a demo for how the main rotor and tail rotor worked together using a rubber band to drive the tail rotor... but the rubber motor is actually *IN* the vertical paper tube he's holding. This guy's site is incredible, he has an amazing attention to detail, and even has a few semi-flyable models made from stamps. There are a ton of other easier to build and fly rubber powered planes on his site as well. Check out the linkage to his site, you will NOT be disappointed!
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A marvel of ingeniosity! I need to make one :)
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By the way, i've looked at ornithopter in you tube and there is pretty cool videos, this one is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6370ZISAbvY
It's an rc one, it's almost alive...
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By the way, i did a search for ornithopter at You Tube and there is pretty cool videos, this one is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6370ZISAbvY
It's an rc one and it's almost alive...
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By the way, i did a You Tube search for ornithopter and there are pretty cool videos, this one is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6370ZISAbvY
It's an rc one and it's almost alive...
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By the way, i did a You Tube search for ornithopter and there are pretty cool videos, this one is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6370ZISAbvY
It's an rc one and it's almost alive...
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Argh!!! The Post Button is so funky, i'm really sorry for the zillions posts.
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Hi ,
This is a very good idea
keep up the good work.
raj
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Hi
This is amazing, has someone got a better translation / instruction set?
im struggling with the translated version..
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The postcard/magazine card plane I'm referring to was a flying model, not a papercraft model.
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Maybe the next issue of Make: should include a few drop out cards with the plane plans pre-printed on them....
That could be fun!
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i was just wondering if you would be kind enfor to post a video of this cool helicopter?
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this project is almost incredibe the maker has a very
high level of intelligence. keep it up!
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