I've always been assuming that the spinning produced a gyroscopic stabilizing
effect at high vehicle speeds. Have I been wrong?
Phil Vanner
'61 Midget (with captain's chairs for simultaneous rotation along two axes)
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As, however, we spend most of the time "topless" the resulting injuries
in top on spinning are irrelevant. The best way we havce found to offset
the size diff is to utilize the bonnet as an effective support. However
this is predicated on the MG in question being immobile and therefore
does no effect the lateral motion at high speeds.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
>Correct you are, Bob, although probably not in a Midget, unless the doors
>were open for the intertial lateral stability supplied by the extended
>mass
Snippage
. This usually happens only after sustained high
>speeds and, fortunately, is not always obtainable.
>
>Larry Dickstein
>bugide@juno.com
>
>
>On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:56:55 -0600 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
>writes:
>>I daydreamed through most of my science classes but I seemed to
>>remember a concept where, if you could mount the smaller unit from a
>central pivot point and then spin it around on this new axis, the
>gyroscopic effect could have a profound impact on the larger mass.
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