Gyroscopic Action on Planeless Flying Machines.
(By. Peter Ellis.)
If four-screw propellers are arranged with their axes at right- angles • (as per sketch plan), and revolving at a high rate of speed, the machine cannot easily cap-' size, either fore and aft, or crosswise, 'because of the gyroscopic action of the propellers. Of course, screw propellers set up in this manner will not work so as to propel the machine, but , if the side propellers (AA Pig. 2) are shaped to drive the air tangentially instead, of axially, the difficulty may be overcome. lam at present experimenting on. these lines.
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Progress, Volume VI, Issue 9, 1 July 1911, Page 722
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100Gyroscopic Action on Planeless Flying Machines. Progress, Volume VI, Issue 9, 1 July 1911, Page 722
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