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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sidewinders on everything
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.013438.8315@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 01:34:38 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: wolit@mhuxd.att.com (Jan I Wolitzky)
>When an AIM-9 is mounted on something that doesn't move very fast, ...
>those clever little airstream driven-gyros in the rollerons on the tail fins
>aren't spinning at launch time.  How does the missile maintain roll
>control before it gets up to speed and overcomes the inertia of these
>gyros?

There may be some clever solution to this, but my first reaction is "maybe
it doesn't have to".  There really isn't any need to prevent rolling
altogether; the requirement is simply that roll rate not get high enough
to foul up the pitch/yaw guidance.  It may be that the rollerons are
operational before the roll rate can get too bad.
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"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


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