On Fri, 30 May 2008 02:43:48 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

This was a fairly odd Magnus Effect concept; a Trac-Ball scaled up to
huge size to make an airship: http://www.magenn.com/about.php
Golf balls use the Magnus Effect; that's what the dimples on its surface
are there for - to create air turbulance over its surface as it spins
while in flight and gains altitude from the lift it generates.

....Well, now we know what they did with "Rover" after The Village was
shut down in 1969!

http://www.magenn.com/images/aboutPic2.jpg
http://www.magenn.com/images/aboutPic3.jpg

OM
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