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Bzzzzzt.. Wrong answer. Care to try again?

Gyrocopers, and Autogyros are not VTOL's, they are (at best) STOL's Please note that the rotor is driven by air pressure while being driven forward by a prop that is connected to engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro

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So, go and suspend your own disbelief. ]]>May 2nd 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
Bzzzzzt.. Wrong answer. Care to try again? "

Well, that *is* a rather standard helicopter thing, even if gyro's don't do it ;)]]>May 2nd 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 4th 2008 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
Worst Keanu Reeves line ever, IMO... and that's saying something]]>May 2nd 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 2nd 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 2nd 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
(barfs a little)]]>May 2nd 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 2nd 2008 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 2nd 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 2nd 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/Did any of you terds ever empty shotgun shells and make a bomb from the powder charge?
How about a bow, not to mention a cross bow. Any of you ever held one in your Starbuck-stained soft little fingers?
Any of you ever melting down something to mold it into something else?
Any of you ever kill an animal and cook it over a fire behind your house (and actually eat it?)
Get outta here!!
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I am reading this thinking, yeah, mad max2 that was a great movie... brings back memories.. Cool one engadget...

They are reading it thinking, hmm, where are the spelling misstakes, 3 faulty pixels in the screen grab and .....

what a bunch of wankers...

PS. There is a spelling mistake in this post, feel free to cream your pants over that one too!
]]>May 2nd 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/Btw, he did say "last of the v-8 interceptors" in road warrior, I think "last of the big 8's" came from madmax (what can I say... I am a mechanic and the last of the Big V8's kinda guy!!)]]>May 3rd 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/There is simply no room for a bypass in the housing, not to mention it would tear the guts out of any reasonably sized clutch system used to start and stop the belt, its lobes are quite large.*Wikipedia]]>May 3rd 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
It has been shown, though, to be possible to run a clutch, as seen in the movie, on the blower but with less spectacular results. I think it was Hot Rod magazine that did the test, a least a decade ago, and found that the vacum of the engine was enogh to turn the the rotors within the blower to allow the engine to run. The big but is your not going to be driving 120 miles an hour down the high way that way, not to mention an engine set up for a blower has got low compression piston setup and the carbeurators are super rich. Very boggy. Not to mention the clutch is gonna have to be of very high quality to get more than a day or to (or even a few seconds under drag racing loads) to hold up under any kind of loads. But it does work besides all that.]]>May 5th 2008 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
The sound of the air starter (yup, that's the high pitched whirring noise you hear) firing up the big diesel that Max takes back to the compound... The accuracy of this scene is pretty darn good, even down to the initial puff of white smoke from the cold engine.

I also love the scene where the truck comes back, all banged up, and the parapalegic mechanic is relaying instructions through his simpleton assistance. I think I could use a guy like that to relay instructions to my father-in-law next time he downloads some malware on his PC...

And finally, for my money, 'Humungous of the Wasteland' has to be one of the best characters EVER!]]>May 3rd 2008 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
The Mad Max films are sooooo dated now, and I have seen far too many films featuring post apocalyptic environs. !!!]]>May 6th 2008 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/May 3rd 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
It's Mad Max. Why it got sanitised says a lot.]]>May 4th 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/movie-gadget-friday-the-road-warrior/
BTW- I'm surprised no one mention the scene where the idiot tries to catch the razor sharp boomerang. Those flying finger segments made a great shot back in the day.
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