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To: Flick Lives; grumpygresh
Here is what Ingenuity has: Rotors: 2 carbon-fiber blades, about 4 feet in length. They spin in opposite directions at about 2,400 rpm, much faster than standard helicopter rotors, which run at about 500 rpm. (Ingenuity's blade rotation spin is closer to that of blades in a high-end food processor.) -USAtoday
Can you imagine how long a Huey's blades would have to be, or how fast they'd have to spin to fly on Mars???
17 posted on 04/11/2021 9:52:40 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I have been following the comments elsewhere of truly brain dead people who claim its impossible to fly on Mars. And thus they preach the mantra its all fake. Really kind of sad they cannot comprehend physics of aerodynamics.


18 posted on 04/11/2021 11:14:20 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (17)
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