Subject:
|
Re: Mobile Party Palace (Space Wheels Contest Entry)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.space
|
Date:
|
Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:07:02 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1303 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.space, Brian Cooper wrote:
| |
I’m still not sure how such a big monowheel vehicle can steer. It can’t lean,
because that would slosh the partygoers around too much. Must be like a
smartwheel, changing shape asymmetrically to steer and stabilize - a velvety
ride while crushing the countryside. (This is the hallmark of a good sci-fi
MOC, it gets you thinking about how it functions and inspires short stories.)
|
Of course it can steer! The mpp houses a large, horizontally mounted, flywheel
in it’s base.
To turn right the flywheel spins left, imparting a turning force in the opposite
direction, much like a helicopter, which needs a tailrotor to stop the body
spinning in opposition to the rotor.
Steve :-)
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Mobile Party Palace (Space Wheels Contest Entry)
|
| (...) I apologize for corrupting your concept. ;-) That's a great work on the picture, a slightly smoking trail of squashed debris going off into the distance. (The only thing missing for image realism is the dark shadow cast over the landscape by (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
|
24 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
