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From: "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject: Re: Vehicle Economy (was RE: What is a CF?)
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 10:26:05 -0400
Ereskanti wrote:
>I'm still trying to figure out where a man-sized or smaller rotor drone
>fits 120 liters of fuel.
>-=-=-=-=-
[snip]
>As for the fuel, yeah, the numbers don't match quite right, i know...we
>argued
>out compressed fuel tanks (which I once made rules for...Wordman, if you read
>this, do you still have those as well? They were in the Nagee back when
>Chris
>did them)....

Well, 120 liters of fuel is 1.5m x 20cm x 40cm - which will fit into
a man-sized drone with a little effort. You could hang a 0.125m^3 box
but it would be pretty heavy (assuming gasoline, it'd mass 0.7 kg/L =
87.5 kg).

James Ojaste

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