From:	"ADAM B. TRELOAR" <s777317@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: LAVs and something amusing.....
Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:13:13 +1000

> Anyone ever thought about the phenomenon of ground effect??? As far as
> I'm concerned an LAV can't fly without it..... That's why they are called
> LOW ALTITUDE VEHICLES... all the fiction references to them pulling
> vertical loops and getting hundreds of feet of altitude really pisses me
> off.... It'd be way harder than looping a helicopter (which can be done),
> because most helicopters aren't flying armoured housebricks like a Banshee.

Agreed in principle, but note that helicopters ARE flying bricks.
According to normal physics, they shouldn't work. AFAIK physicists
around the world still haven't developed a solid theory as to why they
get off the ground. Lots of hypothesese (sp?) but no-one's managed to
prove anything.

Of course, I could be wrong. :)

Guardian

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