[Land-speed] Fw: YAW Control

[John Burk]

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...