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Old 08-14-2011, 09:54 AM
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To answer that I'd have to have the differential equations that describe the flight mechanics, go through a straight-forward but somewhat laborious process that no one wants to hear about and then have a quantitative response.

However, as you know, one develops an intuition in their discipline and my sense is it can't be scaled much.

It can take a small load to a precise location, sit down, wait and come back.

But it'd be fun to play with like a kid.

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Although flight mechanics is not my field, I suspected the same. I remember learning about the physics of scaling using the 50's Sci Fi mutant ants, or spiders or dinosaurs or whatever. Those skeletons could not be scaled to the proportions in those cult films. But they were great entertainment.
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