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svandamme 05-18-2007 04:27 AM
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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
You can do the same experiment by sitting on an office chair, and spinning a free bicycle wheel and then rotating it 90 degrees so it's vertical and then parallel with the floor. Your chair will spin 90 degrees.

-Wayne

it was a big problem on WW1 radial engined fighter planes who would violently dive when turning left/pull up when turning right or something like that

cashflyer 05-18-2007 05:37 AM
More of a problem on the rotary engines than the radial engines.

(And I do not mean wankel engines)

svandamme 05-18-2007 05:46 AM
my mistake, got the 2 mixed up

Drago 05-18-2007 01:10 PM
He got you all....physicists don't have friends.


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