Posts by Tiweh 4 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2014
When I get around to building mine (Xmas present from my wife) I was planning to explore the sort of photo-etched meshes available for scale models. The real mesh was very thin and appears semi-transparent in some photographs.
I may even replace the support ribs with something a bit more realistic. I'm not a 100% Lego purist...
Still, while they're putting new wings on, they could make them fold. The airframe is pretty beefy already, so weld on a tailhook mount and uprate the front undercarriage a bit...
BAe managed to toughen up the Hawk into the carrier-capable Goshawk for the USN, so there is a precedent.
For more than a decade many digital camera sensors have been fitted with piezo buzzers to shake dust off on startup and shutdown. Is there some reason why something like this, scaled up, hasn't been fitted to Mars rovers after the problem was first identified by Sojourner?
I'd have thought that the weight penalty would be more than offset by the extended efficiency.
Every now and again the lander could shake itself like a wet dog, a rover indeed. Especially if there was a wind at the time.
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