Re: Steering

At 09:34 PM 5/3/2004, Donald Qualls wrote:

>Fluid injection amounts to non-solid jet paddles; same class as the 
>Jetavator (a ring around the nozzle that can be impinged on the exhaust 
>stream to divert it) and paddles that do the same thing with a 
>non-continuous actuator -- no roll control.


If you put TWO paddles on each side of a square (each paddle is 1/2 the 
width of the side, 8 total), you now have roll control as well as 
redundancy in paddles.



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