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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

You are thinking radius, not diameter.


5 posted on 01/30/2014 2:59:29 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Nope, if you have a tower 131 feet high and rotor blades 135 feet in diameter, then (unless you tilt them or put them on top of the tower like a pin-wheel hat) those blades will hit the ground. If it were radius, the circle of the rotor blades would be 270 feet.


15 posted on 01/31/2014 1:12:38 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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