The Flight of Lifter1
by Stefan Kaechele ( Laufenburg, Germany )

created on February 3, 2002 - JLN Labs - Last update February 3, 2002
All informations in this page are published free and are intended for private/educational purposes and not for commercial applications

Dear Jean-Louis,

On saturday the 9th our group did 2 experiments which we would like to share:

- Lifter flight in a closed box :

To clear the question for us wether a lifter would fly in a closed box or not, we used an (empty and dry) aquarium(of glas) of the dimensions: 
H375mm x L775mm x B330mm.
The top of the aquarium was closed with a piece of wood with 2 small holes for the cables.
The results were that the lifter 1 flys as allways if not placed to close to the walls of the aquarium.
We made a short video about this flying tests(320 x 240pixel with a MC3 from Kodak. We recommend this cheap mini-camcorder from Kodak, its really great !!)

I dropped the frame-rate to 3frames/s so one can see the up-going of the  lifter nicely. Means slowed down to 1/7 of the original velocity.

The Aquarium-flight may interest you, because it shows clearly that the Lifter gets up even in a closed box(of glas in this case).

To see the videos, the free downloadable RealPlayer is required

Click on the picture above to see the video ( 40 Kb )

- Flight video of Lifter 1 :

With our new mini-camcorder MC3 we made some small flight-videos of  lifter 1.

To see the videos, the free downloadable RealPlayer is required

Click on the picture above to see the video ( 76 Kb )

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Stefan Kaechele
Laufenburg
Germany

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