Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 0:47 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
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> BTW, dimly remembering old pictures of autogyros from the 30s, I'm not sure
> they're quite the same beast as the modern helicopter, which IIRC was
> invented(?) by Sikorsky sometime after WW II.
They're not. They're more like airplanes with a rotor on top. The rotor
on an autogyro isn't powered and doesn't provide lift, but instead
rotates as the autogyro falls (e.g. if the engine stalls), slowing the
descent.