Will gyros replace "fin" stabilizers on larger boats?
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Interesting video.
I wonder how it affects bow-to-stern movement? It is a gyro - seems
to me that if it has that much of an effect on side-to-side roll, it
would have the same effect on bow-to-stern movement..
The gyro vacuum enclosure appears to be mechanically restricted to fore and
aft gimble movement, so I suspect it stabilizes on one axis only.
How the fore and aft movement translates to stabilizing beam to beam I think
has something to do with the principles of gyroscopic progression, similar
to helecopter controls of blade pitch.
But, I might be wrong.
Eisboch
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