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Flettner rotorship "Buckau" 1/? based on old SMER kit

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Story:
This beats the living daylights out of the Lovecraftian nightmare that is called "ship's rigging".

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rotating-sails-help-to-revive-wind-powered-shipping/#:~:text=In%201926%20a%20cargo%20ship,the%20time%20in%20Scientific%20American).

See p.20-21
http://berlinnhhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The_Brown_Bulletin_V8_No8_Feb_1927.pdf

http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs/Climatechange/Flettner%20ship/Popular%20Science%201st%20American.htm

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