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Re: [Land-speed] Fw: YAW Control

To: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>, "LandSpeed List"
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: YAW Control
From: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:48:23 +0000
Consider 1to 3 degrees of caster!Jack

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From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net> 

> Mayf 
> 
> High performance gliders have a couple of things in common with rear drive 
> lsr cars . They carry ballast and they work better if they give away 
> directional stability by moving the cg back to the middle . My glider pilot 
> friend was thinking of using forwardly sprung ballast that the pilot 
> triggered at the first sign a flat spin . 
> 
> Worst case with an unintentional cg shift would be harmless . 
> 
> John 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Wouldn't need to be excessiv eyaw. But yaw rate. As soon as yaw rate 
> > cause a liit to be reacedd then control uses a mass as a reaction body to 
> > create and off setting force. Mass free floats on a shaft. Controls at 
> > both ends to amplify the force. Use magnetics and make very high spring 
> > rates to put stuff back where it goes. Car would never even feel like it 
> > was going astray. 
> > 
> > As I develop my model of spin mathematics to see how small the yaw angle 
> > needs to be then I will add some control... 
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