- 1. Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:56:55 -0600
- 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
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01384.html (7,218 bytes)
- 2. Re: Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein)
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:51:21 EST
- 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. If the top were down, the vertical stability of
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01387.html (7,822 bytes)
- 3. Re: Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 97 12:40:51 -0500
- 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
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01393.html (8,632 bytes)
- 4. RE: Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:14:24 -0600
- 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
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01396.html (7,998 bytes)
- 5. Re: Off Topic, again... (score: 1)
- Author: bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein)
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:11:00 EST
- Immobile, you say? Never gave that any thought!!! Hmmmm, my guess is that it'll never catch on. Larry Dickstein bugide@juno.com There is no problem that cannot be solved with either a checkbook or hi
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01411.html (9,193 bytes)
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