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Pyroscaphe (GyroFighter)

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Everyone

Recompile both Programmable blocks to get the gyroscopic system to respond.




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It uses the gyro system shown above with a two-axis carriage, so the two reaction wheels can do both Yaw & Roll
I had the problem that the gyros couldn't affect the pitch In that configuration, I have stacked rotors that speed up / slow down the reaction wheels to create pitch forces

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Early concepts of it were using wheel suspension to get the speed requirements, but anything attached to the wheel suspension has reduced gyroscopic forces so your rovers work normally, but for this project I needed those quirky invisible forces, also for some reason one of the wheels never could get up to speed no matter how hard I tried.

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I started the construction with the Reaction Wheels & Carriages. The wheels were expanded and weighted to make them more reactive, the carriages were redesigned to rotate the wheels around a single point (more or less) to reduce the variables on the control system.

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The control system took so much space that I could not do much detailing, but I did my best to try to integrate the reaction wheels & carriages into the overall hull shape.
Prototype test runs showed that the wheels had a nasty habit of smacking the hull under strain, and the wheels would desync in laggier servers (XOC's showcase). Both involving with sudden inventions of the craft.

The max angles for the carriage were reduced slightly, and everything was made more stable for servers. Unfortunately, the fighter is now more drifty.