Well, yeah, its a bit rigged. One guy was an r/c pilot, and 3 others were
ex-aircraft workers or engineers. The other team consisted of a couple of
back-yard tinkerers, and actor (???), and a guy who makes....blimps.
At 10:58 PM 11/24/00 -0800, Tom Watson wrote:
>Sounds like the team that made the conventional plane had an engineer on
>it...
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>> Anyway, one team made a big blimp (good thing they found a giant roll of
>> unused mylar!), and the other made a more convential r/c plane with
>> wire-cut foam polyhedral wings and a weed-eater engine.
>>
>> Seeing as the target they had to drop a bomb on was at the bottom of a
>> quarry, I would have ditched the engine and made a slope glider.
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