Re: Konstantin Ziolkowski's iron airship



Ron Miller wrote:
There was actually a reason behind that. The loops in the drawing were
meant to be in three dimensions, kind of like the semi-circular canals
in your ear. The idea was that the gases rushing through the three
different planes would automatically stabilize the rocket. I hope you
noticed that it was also an idea that KET abandoned pretty early on.

A _gas-flow_ gyro?
Boy, that's a new one. :-)


Pat
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