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Artificial horizons
From: Bill Arden
Date: 2003 Jul 10, 23:34 EDT
From: Bill Arden
Date: 2003 Jul 10, 23:34 EDT
This thread has gotten me to thinking ...
The best thing about a liquid artificial horizon is that it is gravitationally driven to be flat and level, but it suffers from breezes.
The best thing about a mirror artificial horizon is that it's permanently flat, but it's hard to make it level.
Has anybody tried floating a mirror on a liquid bath? You could glue it to a piece of styrofoam, and if it were only slightly smaller than the pan it's floating in, there wouldn't be much room for wind to disturb the liquid.
I haven't tried it (this is just a gedanken experiment) - has anybody else?
Regards,
Bill Arden
The best thing about a liquid artificial horizon is that it is gravitationally driven to be flat and level, but it suffers from breezes.
The best thing about a mirror artificial horizon is that it's permanently flat, but it's hard to make it level.
Has anybody tried floating a mirror on a liquid bath? You could glue it to a piece of styrofoam, and if it were only slightly smaller than the pan it's floating in, there wouldn't be much room for wind to disturb the liquid.
I haven't tried it (this is just a gedanken experiment) - has anybody else?
Regards,
Bill Arden