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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by lotsofmangos on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @07:47PM (#8072216)
Long furled blades is another way to go, then you can have a heliroc. They work pretty nice as toys.
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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by ansible on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:50PM (#8072536)
That sounds like the Roton by Rotary Rocket:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by Crito on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:29PM (#8072311)
Heh, that would certainly put a positive twist on their spinning problem too. ;)
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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by lotsofmangos on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:05PM (#8072408)
While it works nicely for recovering balsa and cardboard from a thousand feet or so, I have a sneaking suspicion that it might not scale all that well.
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