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It's uncategorical A fuel burning oracle A fantasmagorical machine It's more than spectacular To use the vernacular It's wizard, it's smashing, it's keen Oh Chitty you Chitty pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang We love you, And Chitty our Chitty pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang loves us too High Chitty low Chitty anywhere we go On Chitty Chitty we depend Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine four fendered friend :tongue: (its wizard??? Is that where it came from? LOL) HAHAHA, anyways, here is where I'm up to so far, tricky leaf spring suspension has slowed me down a lot. I'm now looking at the good bit! working out how to make the wings! Stage 1: Wings extend out Stage 2: prop shaft lifts up to vertical position Stage 3: propeller opens up like an umbrella Stage 4: propeller spins and lifts the car I will stress this full automation is never seen in the movie, that I have watched a few times in the last few days. Just some clever editing, probably the mechanics failed on set and resulted in the prop boy working it out of sight of the camera. "Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me First cabin and captain's table regal company" Sorry, really stuck in my head! So I'm wondering if this is really possible? I'm excited at the challenge! Yes I sprayed the wheels red, and I know they are too dark, haha. Any thoughts or comments are welcome. -
Hi! I posted this moc a while ago in a specific topic as an example, but I never made an own moc topic for it. JFAIR "contest" has "no rules", and the theme is about really flying Lego things, or things related to fly, so I think it's a good opportunity to present this moc: http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=500935 The machine has a very small frame (7L beam), and two propellers for propulsion: http://www.brickshel...y.cgi?i=5432844 Here you can see it flying and raising: (I don't know it's the first, or not, it just flies. ) I think a flying Lego machine can raise from it's own power. It's easy to throw or spin something with your hand. I made some experiments with pull back motors, because they are pretty powerful compared to their size and have lot of rpm, which is very needed to generate raising force. So it can raise/flying off only with Lego parts. The motors with the base structure, the flying thing are all 100% Lego. Yes, it can't raise too high (0,5 m max.), but the flying itself was my goal. Flying time is about 1 sec. The accelerating unit contains two pull-back motors: http://www.brickshel...y.cgi?i=5432841 (I used these motors, because with (even with overvolted) Lego electric motors it seems, it's impossible to fly without wires between the ground and flying machine. And, If I use wires, then it's not a flying machine, because it's connected to the ground.) The video was recorded with 600 FPS. We made some 1200 fps videos, but they have pretty low resolution. Camera: Casio EX-F1