Riddles

[vexx32]

If it's for propulsion, it's not generally called a fan. We call those propellers. But yeah, I suppose there are more uses for fans than cooling...

[r4pt0r]

As an RC plane enthusiast, I just have to interject that the electric propulsion for models of jet planes is called an Electric ducted fan or EDF.

now we wait for the riddle

[B787_300]

shhhh i am thinking about it and moving words around to make it harder to get

[B787_300]

ladies and gentlemen, may i present, the riddle

Graceful in the sky,

Metallic and Beautiful

Mostly retired, yet new again

still known by Name

One of us was a tragedy

lifted by air, but with a frame

powered by propellers

there is still no equal

What am I?

[DuoDex]

ladies and gentlemen, may i present, the riddle

Graceful in the sky,

Metallic and Beautiful

Mostly retired, yet new again

still known by Name

One of us was a tragedy

lifted by air, but with a frame

powered by propellers

there is still no equal

What am I?

A zeppelin!

[B787_300]

darn i thought it was harder than that... duodex gets it

[DuoDex]

darn i thought it was harder than that... duodex gets it

Now I have to come up with a riddle.

Shoooooot.

I'll be back.

[DuoDex]

Adrift upon the lonely sea

Traveling from shore to distant shore

I seek where I was born

Only to depart once more

Stretching to the sky

And indeed it may seem

That I it touch

But 'tis not so, they deem.

They crawl about above me

Below me, on me

The lines are loosed; the cloth it falls

A great wing now is spread

For to speed the capture of the foe

And greater than that, indeed.

[B787_300]

what is a sail boat

[DuoDex]

what is a sail boat

What is not a sailboat.

[B787_300]

what is the wind then

[DuoDex]

what is the wind then

What is not the wind either.

[B787_300]

is it a plane? or an airship?

[DuoDex]

is it a plane? or an airship?

Nope.

[Bill Phil]

that fish that goes up rivers to mate?

[DuoDex]

that fish that goes up rivers to mate?

Nope.

[Starwhip]

Is it a sea turtle? (Eh, doesn't fit everything. )

[DuoDex]

Is it a sea turtle? (Eh, doesn't fit everything. )

Nop.

asdfds

[Xannari Ferrows]

Let's see. Adrift, purposeless, lost... Lost! Lonely, nothing around, no conductivity. You are lost and are no drawn to any particular direction.

Travelling, proliferating, shooting... Shooting, to move quickly across a given distance.

You seek your point of origin. You are drawn to this, like a force. A force that expels you...

Stretching into the sky, moving up, ascending. Ascending... into where? The sky? The beyond? Heaven?

Touch, connected. You feel a connection to this force or being, but this is a one way feeling.

Crawl above, below, and on you, it is everywhere, like an energy or metaphysical being.

Lines are loosed, your time has come, acceptance. As if coming out of exile, or having redeemed yourself.

Wing, subsection, addition. I'm lost here.

Speed the capture of the foe? You are trying to find someone?

Yeah, I'm decently lost. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of an Angel, or perhaps Lightning. Maybe even the air itself.

[Bill Phil]

Weeping Angel?

[DuoDex]

Weeping Angel?

Unfortunately not.

And no to Xannari's post as well.

[cantab]

An umbrella?

[DuoDex]

An umbrella?

Nop.

[GoSlash27]

A wave?

[cantab]

A cloud, maybe?